I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

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.

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

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

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

The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.