Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

If you hide your problems and never let yourself get help from yourself and others, those problems will always be lurking inside of you beneath the surface.

Victory in war is usually the result of compromising what you want and behaving like those you despise." - Tapio

I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.

I realized that making music can help me to convey my feelings, and if it can relieve me, maybe it can help someone else?

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.