I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Lies have always been easier to invent than reality.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.