You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.

Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed to it.

Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.

I think actors should stay grounded and humble and open.

One of the gifts of being an actor is that you get to learn new things see the world through different eyes.

Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.

Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.

Ambition is a stairway that never ends.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.

We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.