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.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

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

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.