Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."

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.

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.

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

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.

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