I do regard myself as very lucky.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

Some people would say I've made it now.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

A bed is a place where so much of life is played out - births and deaths and passions and dreaming - all the most fundamental moments of our fragile human existence.

Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

There's a huge pressure as a judge. It was difficult. I certainly didn't enjoy that factor, because it's a big responsibility to have a million dollars in your hand to change somebody's life.

If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking

I hate Mourinho. He's a fool.

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.