It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

Even though I love fashion and the red carpet dresses are a great, fun, glorious thing, I don't really have my finger on the pulse, as Phryne Fisher does, of the fashion industry.

There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were up to scratch.

Do you not understand?” he whispered. “I have never belonged to anyone. Not since I was a child. It is a lonely thing to be unclaimed by another. The idea that I could be yours seduces me more than you can know.

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.