I know, I pick up the roles other actresses don’t want [laughs]. When there’s movies where there are two sisters and one’s the uglier sister, there’s always no actress that wants to go for it. I’m like, why not! They’re the best roles!

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

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.

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

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

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.

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