I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

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