The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.