I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

I never look at the size of the film when I’m looking for a part.

I’ll give you a list of a hundred ways that I’m more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they’re doing. It’s not a place where I...

I wasn’t going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

As an actor I’ve been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

It’s always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I love being at home, being with friends and family. I’m of European stock, brought up in Australia. I’m a passionate guy. I just love life.

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don’t use machines.

I’ve worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I’m always watching what they do and I’m watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you’re trying...

I’m very much a bit of a ghost presence.

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn’t mean you do it.

My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.

I really enjoy working on small films.

There wasn’t a moment where I got into cars. It wasn’t a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.

I have a theory that I really want my kids to know – the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot...

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

The Israeli accent wasn’t one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn’t do that. You should stay in school...

I’m a bit of a romantic.

When you’re shooting a film, you really don’t get to be a dad, and you don’t really get to be a husband. You don’t really exist at all. But I do drag my family with...

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

I don’t like to come at my character from some really technical place.

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that’s my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I’ve finished a movie but don’t tell anyone.

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That’s true with people as well as things.

I’ve always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you’re the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you’re the fastest. So...

I’m spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

You’ll read things and say, this is a really good project and it’s probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense...

When I go on the plane to fly home, I’m literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because...

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, ‘Bring back the spikes, Dad.’

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what’s going on around you.

The movies people don’t talk about or remember after six months’ time don’t really matter.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties – I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn’t do that today, no way.

I’m always one time zone behind myself.

I’ve always been a bit of a car freak.

The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn’t have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, ‘You should try stand-up,’ and took me to a...

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

I guess I’m a very keen observer, and I’d like to think I have a good imagination.

I’m always reading and looking around for the next thing.

I’ve always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that’s supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

If you’re lucky enough to be involved in a film that’s about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years’ time it just gives you more energy and...