Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."

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.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.

I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

The world will be saved by beauty.

What is meditation? When you empty yourself and let the universe come in you.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

I don't think of myself as being tied.