I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.

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

When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.

I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.

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.

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 good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.