Quotes from Asher Keddie

My sister and I were very adventurous. We'd play in the park across the road in our imaginary tree house for hours on end and come home on our bikes when it was dark.

Why are we only considered successful if we can juggle family with a demanding career?

I don't think, 'Oh gosh, I won't be quite there and I won't be as successful as I want to be unless I'm juggling a couple of kids, a marriage and a career.'

We really just fit our work in and around the family's needs. I'm not juggling it all brilliantly, I'm doing my best.

I'm quite a physical, active person and I'd be really keen to see what that would be like, a big action flick.

When you are lacking in confidence, the last thing you want to do is perform.

I'm mortified when I see 20-year-old girls changing the shapes of their faces or plumping their lips out or their cheeks.

There are so many hard-wired ideas we've grown up with that we're now realizing are unacceptable.

And I love non-actors. Just like I love working with children. They have spontaneity and a great energy. You're just not sure what you're going to get.

I'm probably infuriating to work with, particularly in 'Offspring,' because I'm in pretty much every scene so I need the other actors around me to be able to pull of the spontaneity of that character.

I am physically fit and I have a lot of stamina. It's because on the farm I am up at 6 A. M. doing chores. You will find me out in the paddocks, feeding the animals and picking up poo.

Awards nights are a part of our modern culture; they're part of what we do.

Life when I'm not shooting is always about the kids, there's no doubt.

Because of the experience of a long-running series like 'Offspring,' the beauty of that was that I was working on that so rigorously for seven to eight years that I got to a point where I literally had to clock off at the end of the day and go and invest in my family and my own life.

And I think 'Offspring' has given me that opportunity to really appreciate the audience and want to entertain them and make it the best drama I can.

It's interesting the whole Kardashian thing with 'Offspring' because really my choices - with my costume designer - for every single episode are based on the emotional journey of that episode for the character.

I have as many foibles, challenges, shortcomings and struggles as anybody else.

If I were to do something here in Australia that did travel overseas, for sure, I would like to work anywhere in the world.

I have four and nine-year-old sons, and the world that they are navigating is vastly different to the one I grew up in. So 'The Hunting,' and the conversations it will inevitably ignite are really necessary, for us to stay on the front foot and to raise emotionally intelligent, respectful human beings.

I was shy and struggling with it.

With my acting career, everything always seems to just fall into place, so it's not about having to try really hard to get work.

I don't feel like I need or want to apologize for feeling ambitious.

Who needs a gym? It doesn't appeal to me to exercise in a room.

I've always loved fashion and was dressing up in my mum's clothes when I was four.