Miranda Otto

“I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.”

“Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people.”

“Soho House is normally a private-members club, but the Berlin one has a hotel open to the public. Many beautiful rooms in a cool location, and who knows who you'll run into in the lobby!”

“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 time.”

“I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.”

“I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows.”

“As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.”

“If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.”

“Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.”

“There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.”

“I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.”

“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.”

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

“I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.”

“I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.”

“I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.”

“The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and laugh and discover things about yourself and other people - and the energy level is great.”

“I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I'm quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I'm just really loving it and feeling great, and it's all over.”

“Every director is completely different.”

“Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.”