What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.

I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.

My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.

True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.