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.

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.

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.

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.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.

Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world.

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

The only song I can sing is “Lady in Red” so that must tell you how great it must have been.

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

I don't trust you with my shoe; I wouldn't trust you with an old pair of socks.

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.