Brooke: (on juggling roles in 2006) I have had some Playschool booked in for the time I have been on Dangerous, so I have been smashing parking meters by night and singing nursery rhymes during the day - it's been hectic. I have to make sure I do the right one in the right place! There is no magic trick (to juggling work). As soon as my head hits the pillow I am unconscious. I guess you just have to be careful what you wish for. One minute you can't pay the bills the next everything comes at once. But that's life.
Brooke: (on her period of being unemployed) I have been a bloody lucky actor. It helped me find the ground again, it was good. There was a year when things were quite lean and I had to branch out into voice-over work and selling clothes for family friends just to keep the wheels in motion. It was almost like I got an enforced break, which is probably a very healthy thing. I needed it.
Brooke: (on filming “Tripping Over” in the UK) I got to go and hang out there and tripped in once a week for my scenes. I had some time off to go and see my family for a week, then I’d come back, do a bit of acting, trundle off again and check out the shops! It was great.
Brooke (on her new show, Dangerous): It’s so typical of my career - either feast or famine!. It’s ‘Incy Wincy Spider’ one day and ramming myself through a convenience store window the next!
Brooke: The best thing about Neighbours was definitely the catering van - reason being, every meal was fully catered for with a grand selection of devilish foods. Each day had a different theme. e.g. Lunch may have a Mediterranean flavour, whilst dinner might be Mexican or perhaps a roast. Last but not least - la piece de resistance - every meal comes with dessert!
Brooke: (on Tripping Over) When I first read the scripts, I read all six at once and it was one of those experiences when you walk out of a movie or hear a piece of music, you just have this whole new perspective on the rest of the world. It taps into that thing you face growing up. You realise there aren't any hard and fast rules, as much as you are bought up with a structure as a child. Once you become responsible for yourself, your actions have repercussions and that's your responsibility.
Brooke: (on Tripping Over) It's a very honest approach about life. When I first read the script, I questioned many things in my life. 'Where am I going? What do I want?’ There are moments of resolve, moments which are triumphant and moments which are devastating as they are in life. But you can't tell what is going to happen in your life. Travelling has been an amazing experience in itself. But I'd like to think that I'm a good enough actor to get any role I go for, but it always comes down to whether of not I'm appropriate to play that role.
Brooke: (on living in Sydney) I'm actually a lot more comfortable up here, I found it a little bit hard to start off with, I didn't want to admit that to myself at first. It was really foreign. When I used to come over here with "Neighbours," I used to meet up with friends and I swore I'd never live here and I swore that I'd never drive here, ever, and now I'm doing both.
Brooke: (on living with boyfriend Matt Newton) There is the inevitable debrief when we get home from our jobs each day, but we do try to keep our place as a safe haven from the pressures off work. Matthew is someone whose opinions I trust. He's an incredible actor and an inspiration. He's the perfect person to bounce ideas off.
Brooke: (on bad reviews from her time on Neighbours) I loved my time on Neighbours and would not trade the experience for anything, but some of the stuff I had to deal with away from work, well, I'm glad it's gone. The worst thing about it was when you'd be out somewhere and people would say the most horrid things about you. It would always come from people in your own peer group. Well, for example, someone said, ‘Hey, look, there's that f . . . . . . dog from Neighbours'. I'd feel like going up and saying, ‘Dude, I'm not deaf!' I just couldn't believe people would scream their lungs out with stuff like that. It would really affect me.
Brooke: (on the hard times of being an actor) I started on Neighbours at 15 and somehow, through just continuous strokes of good fortune, managed to move into job after job. Then I turned into a real actor and I was out of work. I was selling clothes for a family friend, I was literally doing anything to make ends meet for a while there. It got really grim for a while. It was probably a really beneficial thing that it happened, I think everybody needs a break, but it is also really hard when you have been moving at such a pace to stop. It made me quite hungry to act again.
Brooke: (on moving straight from Neighbours to Shakespeare) As I was finishing Neighbours I found out about The Tempest and I baulked at the idea and thought, 'Oh God, I don't think I'm ready for that, I don't think I can do it.' I went to Mum and said 'I can't do this. How am I going to wash my clothes? And where am I going to cook and where are they putting me up and how can I do this?' But I got up there and it was like nothing I expected, I met the most fantastic people and just lived this amazing life for about four months where I was living in the Gardens in this magical Tempest world and going to the pub every night. It was fantastic!
Police sought statements from make-up artists who worked with Brooke during the times Matt Newton allegedly beat her.
Matt Newton has officially ended his five-year romance with Brooke and has begun dating another child of the Australian showbiz scene, Barry Otto's daughter Gracie. Matt has taken up residence at the Otto household since leaving the Balmian abode he and Brooke had shared for several years. It is understood the long-term relationship between Matt and Brooke ended on bad terms, with Brooke fleeing Sydney as soon as she had completed filming commitments on the drama series, Dangerous.
In 2003, Brooke joined the fight against the mining that had destroyed all but one of Sydney's historic Kurnell sand dunes, which featured in many Australian films including Mad Max, Rats Of Tobrukand Phar Lap. The sand mining also caused huge craters in the area. An application has been lodged to extract and process about 4.5 million tonnes of sand over the next 10 to 20 years.
Brooke is the long-time girlfriend of actor Matthew Newton.
Before Brooke became an actress, she had a part time job in 1996 in a morgue.
Brooke once had a job doing voice overs for radio and television adverts.
After leaving Neighbours, Brook performed in the theatre production, Francis Kiss.
Brooke once had a job being a ‘reader’ for casting agents.
In 2006, Brooke revealed that because acting roles were so few and far between for her in recent years she took up a job as a shop assistant to make ends meet.
Within a few weeks of landing her role on Neighbours, Brooke contracted glandular fever.
Before breaking into acting, Brooke initially had dreams of becoming a forensic psychologist.
Brooke was awarded Best New Talent at the 1998 Logie Awards
Brooke was born several weeks premature.
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