I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

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

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

I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

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.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

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.