I came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.

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.

Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

Increasingly, we are seeing cyber attacks coming from states, organs of states. The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.