I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.

When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.

If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.