As an actor, you have many tools – your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don’t...

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a ‘flat white.’ It’s like a small latte with less milk – they’re popular in Australia.

[Talking about an X-Men Kissing scene]I had to lay down there and think of England as one by one they bring out the girls. It was a very tough morning… After each girl had finished,...

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of...

I would love to have a robot at home.

I’m not doing Bond.

When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I’m naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.

I’m a little bit humbled and I’m thrilled. Australia will always be our home.

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

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I have shocking teeth…. I’m being a little facetious-I just went to the dentist the other day, and he looked at my teeth and went, ‘Oh, my God, you’ve got gray teeth.’

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I’m going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether...

I’m doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called ‘The Boy from Oz,’ where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don’t know, he became first famous in America for...

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don’t want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you’ve finished filming because it’s out of your hands; people are editing it, they’re cutting it, marketing it. And it’s… part your career sort of rides on that....

I’m not a loner at all.

As a boy, I’d always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn’t what one did for a living....

I’ve always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

If you could actually get rid of your special power which alienates you from the rest of the world, would you do it? It’s a metaphor very much about intolerance, I think, fear of anything...

I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking...

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We’re both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there’s not and...

My private life is actually pretty dull. I’m incredibly happily married. Mine is a one-story story, so I don’t think I’m going to be hounded about my private life.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids’ parties for about three years.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word ‘cappuccino’ about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We...

I’m a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it,...

If I go to a party I don’t feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at...

I’m an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It’s not always easy to find but it’s still there.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself.

If I’m a lush at anything, it’s food and drink. I’m not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

But anyone who’s done a musical knows; whether you’re dancing or not, physically it’s the most difficult thing you can do.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Peter’s whole essence was very joyous, … He was fearless, outrageous, and childlike, and he definitely lived life to the full.

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I’m going to go for...

The activity of being a husband, a father – those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that’s what’s most important.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I’d try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I...

I’m a big goofball, you know. Don’t tell anyone that, but I’m a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.

I think I was 5 and singing ‘Camelot’ on stage. It was always a good way to meet girls. I did musicals, plays. My school encouraged it. We’d do our own productions. It wasn’t until...

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn’t raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money...

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I’m close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I’m bad...

It’s absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There’s a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it’s better for the audience.

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn’t, they’d spit on me in the street.

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that...

Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.

By nature I’m not a brooder.

Acting is something I love. It’s a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don’t think it’s any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life,...

Action figure. People can stick pins in it, put in the freezer. It’s far more dangerous than a videogame.