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

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

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.

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.

As part of my job, I got malaria really badly and was put in intensive care, and I had a hallucination because they give you this cocktail of drugs to fix you so you don't die, and I had this hallucination that I was at the Oscars and I won and I was a really good actress, and it was so real that when I came out of the hospital, I started saying to people I'm going to become an actress.

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

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.