- [on Wentworth]: I think its a gift. I still, every time I drive into set, I get so excited, I still have that 8 year old kid in me that goes "I am so lucky."
- [on Wentworth (2013)'s cast handling growing international fame]: Great. I don't think it changes anything. I think it changes us from a social media point of view, that our Instagram accounts we reach out and they reach back to us which is fantastic. But at the end of the day we go to work and make good television and we go home.. It means a hell of a lot for this drama to go around the world, it means a lot.
- [Discussing Linda Miles' 'double life']: It depends on how careful she is. If she doesn't get caught I think she could keep going for a long time. It's a means to an end.
- [on Wentworth (2013) Season 5]: Seeing someone have a happy ending. In our prison world there aren't many happy endings.
- [Discussing Wentworth (2013) episode "Prisoner" during a 2017 Q and A]: Just dealing with Linda's guilt of letting that happen, a line had been crossed she was gutted that she let it happen. And she didn't know what to do, Bea had to actually help her get her act together because she was so shocked. It was absolutely awful.
- [Discussing Wentworth episode 'Coup de Grace']: I did find watching the shiv scene quite hard. Shooting that for hours, cause your body, there's something about the adrenaline your body still thinks ,'I've just had a knife held to my throat..'.
- Even when I read the scripts I'm like 'oh, oh my god'. I can't wait to see what happens. It's exciting television.
- [on Wentworth]: I can't wait for the scripts to arrive. I find with this show I don't do the egotistical 'actor-y' thing and look for my name. Even after all this time -and I've been here since day one- I read the scripts from beginning to end because I want to know the story.
- [on Wentworth and its epic storytelling]: It's the way it keeps reinventing itself. There are a lot of shows that once certain characters leave that's it. But being a prison, under Marcia's hand it's just constantly reinventing itself. The casting of Catherine [McClements] in episode one and then bumping her off, she was the last person you'd expect. I thought that was so clever. Right from the get-go it just hit the ground running.
- [on character Linda Miles]; I've made a conscious decision with Linda that she never changes. She's just there. She probably just gets her clothes off the floor and goes to work. So she hasn't really changed.
- [Holding a shoe while giving a Wardrobe tour]; You try running in these. I've been running in those since series one and I've fallen over in the exercise yard more times than I care to remember..
- [on Wentworth's logie win in 2019]; To be honest, none of us expected it - especially after winning last year, It's such an honour to be voted by our industry as Most Outstanding, so we're dead chuffed!
- [on Filming Informer 3838 (2020) ]; Filming the death scene was absolutely horrific. Geoff challenged us with that scene. He kept rolling and we were just begging for our lives and afterwards my body went into shock. Even though you know you're pretending your body doesn't. The last season of Wentworth finished with a siege where I had a gun to my head, so it's been an interesting couple of years.
- [on Filming Informer 3838 (2020) ]; The rumour was that this broke the criminal code - you never touch the partners. I just tried to find the truth and be as respectful to playing that character as I could. Walking down the street in Kew, they could have been any family. You never know the underbelly of people's lives.
- [on Laughter in her marriage]; If you can laugh with your partner, you can get through anything - and sharing a nice bottle of red. If you can just keep on laughing..
- [on meeting husband Ian]; I never remember anniversaries, but I just remember that day.
- If you can laugh with your partner, you can get through anything - and sharing a nice bottle of red. If you can just keep on laughing.
- You're standing in the studio with your husband and he's braying at you like a horse, and I'm barking ... a great way to keep a marriage alive is insanity.
- Even when we were filming in a car I asked Paris our standby props to make sure that she looked like she lived in her car half the time.
- I often do a lot of reading work which is reading opposite actors who are auditioning for roles, and I read opposite Katrina there was this bit where she [Katrina] yells and my ears are still ringing. She was brilliant.
- I would say there was plenty of times where I would cry after leaving set. Even though you know its acting and telling a story your body still goes into shock, your body still goes there.
- So I think as an actor you'll always go there. But I think Wentworth is definitely unique
- [on Informer 3838 filming]; I was known as a comic actor, I mean how did this happen? But that one my entire body went into shock again. That was awful, the director he just wanted us to go there. So we were literally begging for our lives so that was really tough. So I think as an actor you'll always go there.
- [on sassy and sarcastic roles]; It's happened as I've got older. It used to be the 'dumb blonde' ingenue characters, and then its become the dry sense of humour, salt of the earth characters.
- [on Wentworth]; For me I just loved doing it. I wasn't prepared to go to that stage where I was ready for it all to go, to be the end of it. So I made the most of what I was given, and I was always grateful when something juicy came along. Season 7 was the juiciest for me.
- [on her Wentworth character Linda Miles]; So to have stayed in that job for as long as she did [Linda], I had to believe that there was nothing else. This just become 'this was it'.
- [on filming the first episode of season 8]; It was the only time I spoke with Marcia [Script writer Marcia Gardner], because I knew she had PTSD, but there wasn't context to this scene. Kevin who was directing just said 'we just have to add something and you'll see it in post', when I saw it. I left the room crying.
- [on voice work]; I think one of the greatest joys in life is providing voices for animations. I'm not kidding it is so much fun.
- [on Wentworth];I didn't audition for Ms Miles, I was in the room with Kev Carlin reading and he said 'there was this really small role she's a prison officer you know, I know you just bought a house, I'd really like you to do it if you're available.' and I come home and went why not? I wasn't doing anything at that moment. I've got nothing to lose. I think they offered me that it was guaranteed 8 days and obviously 8 years later I was still there.
- The scripts whenever they would get delivered everything would stop. I couldn't speak to anyone in the family, I couldn't even walk the dog. I was so excited to see what would happened next and how often do you get that as an actor? Scripts of this quality.
- I remember researching Post Traumatic Stress for post siege Linda, and some of it was just so confronting, so it did include violence, and it was hard to play sometimes.
- I loved writing a whole life and history for her [Linda Miles], I had written a backstory where she had been a teacher, she'd been married, and the gambling got worse and worse, they had lost their house and the relationship split up. She got sacked from her job and then became a prison guard because it was a well paid job. So I reckon for her to stay in this job I believed there had to be nothing else. It became "this was it".
- I have a full story for her that none of you have seen, but that I can draw on. I also had to be prepared to be flexible, because in my mind, I might imagine it going one way, and then I'll get the script and find we're going another way. So you've got to be prepared to ditch the story and go in another direction. There was a scene in the car with Jake where she was really quite terrified. There were people chasing her for money. Shooting in that car, I told our props, 'I want it to look like she lives in that car,' with her uniform, fast food packaging, ... that was as close as I ever got to Linda's house!
- [on Wentworth]; In the early days I had some fantastic one liners, where I'd think, "I know exactly how to play that!' So I would just grasp anything I was given, and run with it.
- They just kept adding a bit more to the character. It was sort of a role by drip-feed. Each season, there'd be something else that I could cling on to. But I never knew if I would be back every year. It was never a guaranteed job for me.
- I made the decision, right from day one, that it was not a small role. The old saying, 'There's no such thing as a small role, only a small actor.' I always had something going on... there was always some subtext.
- Linda was flawed and riddled with addiction. In my mind, she was a teacher, quite successful, married, but the gambling basically broke up her marriage. She lost the house, she lost everything and went into Corrections, because it's quite well paid. From there, she just started to spiral downwards. I also think she was quite a heavy drinker.
- I always loved working with Pam (Rabe). I loved being with Celia (Ireland) for her death scene that was just such a privilege and Katrina (Milosevic), that was an incredible moment to be on set. Kate Box, ...all of them, really.
- What I think is lovely about this series is that they were writing it to end it. They knew where they were heading. But I must say it was very sad getting my last two scripts emailed and knowing that was it. It's something I've looked forward to every two weeks when we're shooting. Every time I would just stop when those scripts would land in my inbox. It's just such good television and you do not come across scripts like this that often in your life.
- All good things should come to an end. We'll go out on a high. We've created this amazing piece of television that can have a final chapter and be closed. Onwards and upwards to whatever is next for everyone.
- There is no one that I worked with that I didn't learn from in some shape or form. It was like a masterclass in Acting and sometimes when I wasn't on set, I'd go and watch the (monitors). I just loved watching people's takes. In the early days I thought 'This is a great learning opportunity, to just sit back and watch.'
- It was written by Tony Sattler and Gary Reilly. It was one of the last sitcoms shot in front of a live audience. So I got that real 'theatre buzz' that television has. And I did one of the one of the very last ones after called Sit Down Shut Up. So a lot of my history has been comedy - especially really heightened comedy.
- And everybody has a story. That's what I find really interesting, about drama in general. Is everybody has a reason for everything they do. Either they're fighting against something or they're going with their influences.
- [on Linda's PTSD]: I think she was literally getting through hour by hour minute by minute, so I believe she had to keep her gambling in check. With her PTSD I don't think she was capable of doing anything beside going to work and going home. I think her life was pretty shit at the end.
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