"When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent."
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"When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased."
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"I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain."
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"I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs."
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"Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance."
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"I try to be healthy. I train three days a week with a trainer. But I do like to eat, clearly. And I do eat dessert every day. If I cut that out, yes, I would lose weight."
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"I do acting for the awards... and cash money."
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"I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic."
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"I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!"
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"I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up."
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"The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect."
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"When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show.""
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"When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities."
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"The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories."
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"I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business."
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"My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'"
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"I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy."
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"If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment."
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"Usually when I ask people to reach into my velvety pouch it means something different."
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"I think that actresses can be in all different shapes and sizes, but it is a profession, and as an actor, your body is one of your big tools. So you've got to be fit in a sense."
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