Quotes

Discussing Vera Bennett's Nickname: They loved going past my house and saying very gingerly 'Vinegar Tits' before racing off at a million miles an hour. I've never minded it. I think its just a bit of fun.

Discussing Wentworth during 2016: It's the biggest compliment out isn't it? It's a huge compliment, yeah. And the show is fabulous and its not like Prisoner it's up with the modern day so its a credit, it's fabulous.

Thirty years ago there was nothing, it was bush. There was a pub, The Burvale, and a Chinese Restaurant. But you left civilisation and you went into the bush. We went to work in the dark and came home in the dark because we worked long hours.

The big shock was when I was with Caroline Gilmer and she was in the stage musical Nine, and I was standing at traffic lights and kids would go past yelling 'Hi Vera' and I didn't know it was being run on Pay TV. That was such a culture shock, because I'd forgotten.

I was never really one to want the attention on me, but the kids that's fine. People were really nice to me. I think Maggie (Kirkpatrick) was hit with an umbrella or something but nobody ever did that to me! They were just really nice.

Vera was a disciplinarian and she was by the book. There was no way that she was corrupt. Whereas I think Maggie's character was bent. I spent a lot of time saying 'this is a prison, not a holiday camp!' and 'what's going on here, clean up that mess!'

I played some of the most beautiful theatres in some of the most exquisite cities and then I went back and did a couple of pantomimes. When we were doing the play people used to dress up in uniforms. Someone even had the original Vera costume.