I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any point in lying about it.

I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

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

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what you've decided to do. I saw a wonderful production of Jessica Lange doing Streetcar with Alec Baldwin. It was gorgeous. It's a measure of what a great classic that is, that our Cate Blanchett also did an absolute amazing Blanche in Sydney, as well as in New York.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!