- On Prisoner's ending: The conclusion of Prisoner after so many years, certainly didn't come as a surprise. But I felt that it was done in a rare and dignified way that you don't often see in television.
- On Prisoner Ending: It was deemed that viewers would want after all these years for Joan Ferguson not to become the governor but to get her comeuppance. And I must say those last episodes were among the most pleasurable that I was able to work on. I thought they were terrific.
- On Joan Ferguson's debut on Prisoner: I have to stay that any menacing stillness that was created in Joan at that point came from sheer terror. Sheer unadulterated terror. I was so scared. I was joining this highly successful show and I thought 'Oh my lord, what am I going to do..' So in all that nervousness and to stop the knees shaking there was just that, stillness. And there she was.
- It was just a job, but one that I'm eternally grateful for. That's the downside, there's so much more in my 56 years in this business that I'm prouder of than I am of Joan Ferguson, and they're all in the theatre.
- It was that sort of thing that really got up my nose and I have no trust in the media since. I am just wary of everything and wary of people as well. It's my fault for having been such an open book all my life so that was then and this is now.
- My body's telling me now all these years later what it was like, But it was exhilarating. The wonderful stunt coordinator for all of those fights and hanging off cliffs and hanging off stairwells, being hung - oh, gosh! And the fight scenes were extraordinary. They were totally choreographed and vicious - it was really clever.
- Four-and-a-half years of hard slog, but a lot of laughs - there were a lot of laughs amongst all those women in spite of the heaviness of the job. We had to be silly sometimes.
- Life isn't all a bed of roses for most people and so why gloss over it. We all make mistakes, we need to admit to them. We have our likes, our dislikes and we have our crosses to bear, there's no point in pussy footing around.
- Sometimes when the work load is heavy and you work hard, you tend to play hard. I think there are probably a lot of people who've been in this business that I've been in, who have faced similar situations. There are huge advantages to being employed but you know there are a lot of temptations and a lot of freedoms that come with it and you come crashing down.
- [on her reaction when she was approached by the band Silverchair to appear on the music video "Anthem for the Year 2000", interview with The Sunday Herald-Sun, February 21, 1999] My first reaction was, 'Why me?' I later found out that the boys were from Newcastle and, being an old Newcastle girl myself, I was more than prepared to help them out. I encourage anyone from my own town. Actually, my niece and nephew went to school with the guys.
- [on a rift in the Prisoner cast]; There probably is.
- There's a generational thing with some men... It's silly and it's puerile and it's not funny anymore.
- I don't have any fondness for the character - [but] I'm proud of what I did for four and a half years
- A certain original member was not told of the event, and then when I saw where profits were going, I thought that's not fair, it should go to the Actor's Benevolent Fund.
- I try to do it with as good grace as possible, but sometimes I want to say, get a life.
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