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.
I don't like karaoke because the mics are always so worn out. The quality of the mics is such that you're always going (screaming) "Yeah, yeah!" and then you can't like it. It's like sometimes I'm too professional to get up and do it.
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.
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.
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.
I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!
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.
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."
For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.
I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.
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.
Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.
All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.
I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.
When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.
The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
I do acting for the awards... and cash money.
