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

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

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

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

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves.

I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.