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.

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

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

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.

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

I think girls who looked like me or were from the poorer area where I'm from in Australia, like you don't think "Oh, I'm going to be a movie star." You just didn't think that would happen to girls like me where I'm from.