Tara Fitzgerald

“My feeling is there is always that possibility for humour in tragedy. In life they go together.”

“In my fantasy I travel really light, but in reality I don't.”

“I don't really want to be thinking about the business all the time and in Hollywood, you're always an actress. I can appreciate it may be good fun if that's your thing but it's not for me.”

“Actors are never resting. Even if you're not working, you're looking for the next job.”

“Playing Ophelia was a launch-pad to the rest of my career - it is one of the great roles for a young actress.”

“I'd really like to go to China and spend a decent amount of time there exploring.”

“I do love creating a look and dressing up in general.”

“My school days were varied, to say the least - my family moved around a lot.”

“As a young actress, I lacked a lot of confidence. I had no real sense of autonomy or belief that I had a right to be where I was.”

“I went to Deia in Majorca when I was a student and it didn't stop raining. It went on and on to the point where bits of land were subsiding and a hotel close to us actually fell off the side of the cliff.”

“My family went to see a pantomime called 'Give a Dog a Bone' when I was about five. My aunt was the stage manager and we were in a box. My sister ran out of the box and on to the stage, while the show was on. The audience loved it. It was a great moment.”

“I read 'Midsummer Night's Dream' when I was very young - about nine. I didn't understand it all particularly, but I loved it.”

“I think it's important for me to do both stage and screen and if I get the opportunity that's great.”

“It's one thing to donate organs. But there's something very specific about taking a whole body and subjecting it to tests. It's harder to assimilate that, I think. It seems slightly macabre.”

“Sydney is a perfect city, because it's by the water. I love New York, too, because I once had a flat in Brooklyn. I usually arrive somewhere and immediately think 'I'd love to live here,' but when it's time to leave I realise that I miss London.”

“I enjoy the discipline of work and then being coughed out on to the streets of London.”

“Making it in the U.S. is not something you can do on your terms, you have to do it on theirs, and I couldn't.”

“I stayed in a dreadful hotel on a school trip to Paris when I was 14 that had mushrooms growing out of the woodwork, filthy beds with stains all over the sheets, and walls so thin you could hear everything going on in the next room.”

“I was filming in the Czech Republic once, and it was so cold I thought I was going to collapse. An extra offered me her shawl and I realised some people can just cope with that sort of thing. I can't!”

“There are a lot of good roles I wouldn't have been able to play in my 20s - something like Lady Macbeth, for instance, which I would only feel comfortable playing in my 40s.”