I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

I came from rather humble beginnings.

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me.

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.

Sometimes even the best of us have to lose ourselves in fantasy to survive reality.

... security is not having things

Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.