Quotes

I've had a passion to play Marilyn Monroe for a really long time. I'm a little too young at the moment, but it's on my bucket list.

I've never gone through any proper training. They say Home and Away is a sort of training ground, and I think it's true, you do learn a lot from that show, but this was completely different.

[Bad Girl] was my first ever feature film, and I'd just come off Home and Away. How refreshing it was to do something that someone had really poured their heart into.

Because of the nature of our lifestyle, I had difficulty with shyness and making friends in new schools. Someone suggested to my parents, 'oh maybe she should try doing an acting class to bring her out of her shell.'

There was a whole page in the script [for The Babysitter] that just said 'what the f-k' on it.' Like, they had taken the time to completely print no words other than 'what the f-k' on a piece of paper. And it's true - that's exactly the reaction. You read it and it needed an entire page of just that.

[What I liked about acting] was that freedom of when you're on a stage it's not you personally that's taking responsibility for a performance - you're playing a character.

I remember at that age in high school, you did have these fierce relationships with other girls, and if they lied to you or if they hurt your feelings it felt like a betrayal.

I really wanted to steer away from the stereotype of the annoying, bratty teenager. I wanted to make her mature and a bit more calculating so that the ending paid off and made sense.

Because of the nature of this industry, it's a bit dangerous to think far ahead. So at the moment I'm just taking it day by day.

[The movie, Bad Girl] was two months spending time on 90 minutes [of screen time], and that was something I'd never done before.

[on people thinking she's fellow Australian actress Margot Robbie] I've tried saying, 'No, it's not who you think it is,' but because I also have an Australian accent, people still think I'm Margot and that she's being really rude. Now I just stand there like her.

'I have a really good group of girlfriends in LA - a lot of Aussies - and we really try to make time for each other and hang out, go for dinners, and leave the husbands at home. It's so important to have that in LA because it can get really overwhelming.

[2026] I remember I was in an airport. It must have been like 10 years ago, and someone thought I was Margot. I just couldn't break it to them that I wasn't, so I posed for a photo with the fan, saying that I was Margot.