What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

I think is sad, how easily we throw around the word without actually understanding the sacrifice behind its meaning. Love in its definition isn't about a strong feeling towards someone, but action.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

Every text assumes a reader.

I’ve had those relationships, and you have to make those mistakes to find out what we really want.

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.