I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

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.

I knew then that the fewer items I was acquiring, dusting, packing, moving, and lugging around in life would free up my energy and time to create...

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7.

Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.

There is no excellence in archery without great labour.