A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

I don't watch the beginnings of many series, I don't know why, maybe because I'm normally working.

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.

I think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.