The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

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

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 believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

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

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