I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back..

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'.

David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good wo….

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters..

When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's wh….

I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any p….

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight..

I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves..

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little gro….

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work bett….

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do..

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to thro….

I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a mat….

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies..

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain..

To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, genero….

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different..

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin..

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explor….

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think….

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that..