For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

My accent's become a weird hybrid.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.