It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

That Science thing "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" Well this is not true if you hit someone much bigger then you.

I know the Lord loves me.

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.