Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

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.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

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