When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

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 since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.

The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.

Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.

Literally since I could walk... I was performing.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.