The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

I'm definitely not non-chalant. I have to leave nonchalant at home when I'm working on something, otherwise I just don't feel like I'm committed, and I've gotta be fully committed.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!

Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.

I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.