Radha Mitchell

“For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.”

“We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.”

“I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.”

“We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.”

“I never wanted to be a movie star.”

“I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.”

“I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.”

“As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.”

“So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.”

“I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.”

“But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.”

“To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.”

“After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.”