Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.

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.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.