I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn’t really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I’m gay...

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Please don’t ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn’t Brown or Smith or Hughes.

You had to to sort of work your way into some sort of clique, and I had no intention of doing that. So I just sort of was funny.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

I’m a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don’t, I don’t think you’ve ever really lived.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

We must be able to inspire. That’s my goal in acting.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren’t really allowed to go out shopping for work.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn’t see myself as a gay woman, even though that’s where my heart was.

I don’t know if it’s a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I’ve lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I’m living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

I’ve been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I’ve been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and...

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn’t sure of it.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It’s really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they’re actually really happy, good- natured people.

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn’t fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify...

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn’t heard it.

My mother and father came from that idealistic age, when they were brought up to believe that they should be working for the good of mankind.

I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don’t have to all the time; I can wear a tank and...

I don’t think any one person is the cause of all of someone else’s problems.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I’ve had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn’t going to talk about it.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn’t have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn’t really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully,...

Young actors are serious about their work and don’t take any time out from it. I’m very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I’ve done where I had a really good...

When I was about 16, I was crazy about this girl. I had a certain amount of money in the bank where I could put a downpayment on a rental, and I went to her...

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn’t right for me.

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

Everybody keeps talking about whether they had a happy childhood or not. I can’t remember being unhappy. I think I probably was.

Every director is completely different.

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn’t nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.