I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.

I love Australia and loved growing up here, and that's something I don't want to deny our children, but it's difficult sustaining a career in Australia.

I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.

One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.

If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.

A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.

Throughout your career, whether you're getting into the sport or have been it in for a number of years like me, there will always be obstacles. The important thing is how you deal with those obstacles and come back from any disappointment or setback, no matter how big or small.

I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.