Dustin Clare

'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.