'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 a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

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

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

I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a matter of course - not because someone else did it first, but because it was the best choice to make. But any actor worth his salt makes something their own.

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

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.