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.

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.

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.

Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

You're Beautiful! (Pass it on).

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.

Tennis is physical chess.