We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

Most Australians who’ve got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

I think that’s why we’re always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

No, I’m so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that’s always been around that they’re not going to throw out.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents’.

It’s one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

I haven’t really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as ‘Hollywood Jack.’

I love when I am not typecast. I’ve been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.