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

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

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

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

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

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