“I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own...” — Essie Davis Quote

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.

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

Even though I love fashion and the red carpet dresses are a great, fun, glorious thing, I don't really have my finger on the pulse, as Phryne Fisher does, of the fashion industry.

I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.

I want to carry a really great role in a great film.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.

When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.