I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going "Ha-ha."

I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real, and I start to believe it's real. It's a strange thing to say, but it's the thrill of getting all the details right and being so absorbed in the character that people go along with the illusion.