The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.