With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

If I was in Sydney, I love the beach. Even though I'm incredibly pale, I put on these terribly long unattractive rashies, and people laugh at me. My kids laugh at me. But that's what I would do.

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.