I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.

I don't like concrete jungles.

I don't go for girls who have beach blond hair, that stereotypical girl thing. But, you know, whatever comes around.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.