I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.