One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.

I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.

I think every character rubs off on you a little bit.

I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.

I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.

I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.