“My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around ...” — Alycia Debnam-Carey Quote

“My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I did my first film with Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, who are a quite well-respected Australian producer-director duo, and that just changed my whole perspective on what I could do in life and be.”

“I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules.”

“If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.”

“If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.”

“My food hero would be someone like Elizabeth David, because I think what she did for Britain was amazing. Also David Thompson, an Australian chef who does Thai food and really understands the basis of it, has always been very inspiring.”