I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'
I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.
I don't like a heavy mask of make-up day or night - mascara and a bit of bronzer.
Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.
I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.
I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'
After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.
There is so much talent in Australia.
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.
It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'
It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.
I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles.
Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.
