Australian Quotes

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.

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.