We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it.