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

I love when I am not typecast. I've been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.

The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.

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.

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

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'