I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a matter of course - not because someone else did it first, but because it was the best choice to make. But any actor worth his salt makes something their own.

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.