Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

I am proud to be an actor.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people connect with it. That means everything to me.

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.