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I love TV as a viewer.
The British are so funny.
I have to rein myself in sometimes.
Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.
Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.
I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.
I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.
Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.
The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch.
I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.
I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.
People would make fun of me and throw things at me and whatever teenagers do.
I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.
It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
I've already started saying that I'm 30 when I'm still 29. That way, I'm already there.
My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.
I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.
I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.
I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.
I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.
I think its important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
I think it's important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.
I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.
I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.
At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.
All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.
I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.
Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.
TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.
There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.
The actor's life, but also the Australian's life. We're wanderers. We like to walk about - we're curious people. I have felt that since I was a teenager.
You know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy... I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.
You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.
Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.
I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.
The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.
What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.
As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.
With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.
Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed.
TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.
Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.
They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.
The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.
How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.
Healthy aggression is good, but I think social media can perpetuate that in the worst way. You have to be careful about comparing yourself to others. You can never be somebody else. You will only be yourself, and that's what's great.
I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to see how far we've come and how far we haven't come with all these myths that people put onto women.