The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in, you get a wealth of Gough’s legacy.
I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you’ve made.
Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.
I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.
People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.
Every single pore – not on the men, but on the women – is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.
I’m a horrible person. And it’s just coming out in my work.
Sometimes I think it’s so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they’re 28?
I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser’s I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.
I often have a few scents depending on if I’m playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn’t wear. We’ve all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves; scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life.
I like to put perfume on my pulse points, but I also love the way you can sense it – there is an atmosphere that comes from releasing a scent in to the world – it’s a primal thing. I spray around me, not just on me, and it lingers in the room after I leave.
If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.
There’s a lot of anti-Semitism, and it’s not just against the Jewish.
When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
I just don’t see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.
There’s not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
I think that’s what I love about my life. There’s no maniacal master plan. It’s just unfolding before me.
Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don’t have progressive thinking and diversity.
You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.