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I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

Rose Byrne

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Rose Byrne
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: July 24
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Balmain
New South Wales
Australia
Mary Rose Byrne
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Serious
Bigs
Often
Really
Clown

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I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.
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TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.
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I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better.
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I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.
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As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.
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Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.
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I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.
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I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.
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The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.
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I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to see how far we've come and how far we haven't come with all these myths that people put onto women.
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My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.
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The actor's life, but also the Australian's life. We're wanderers. We like to walk about - we're curious people. I have felt that since I was a teenager.
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The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.
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The writing is so great on TV now it's such a pleasure to watch.
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Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.
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