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 you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.

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.

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.

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.