When I really get invested in something, the one thing that really disappoints me is when it breaks its own rules.

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.

Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

I think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.

When I really get invested in something, the one thing that really disappoints me is when it breaks its own rules.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.