A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters stick….

I think girls who looked like me or were from the poorer area where I'm from in Australia, like you don't think "Oh, I'm going to be a movie star." Y….

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics..

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends..

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

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with..

I do acting for the awards... and cash money..

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that..

Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude..

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

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy..

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academ….

All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how….

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..

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 b….

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 t….

When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think t….

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance..

My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came….

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive..

Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike..