Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do.