Actor Quotes

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

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.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

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.

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.

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.

I'm an angry guy.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

I love hearing people laugh.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

I like idiotic comedies.

I like dark places.

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.