One of things I’d love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I’ve done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There’s no one better.

basically, I’ll make an ass of myself anywhere.

He’s that reluctant hero, and he’s a fairly classic version of it. He reminds me of characters I always liked, Mad Max, Dirty Harry, Han Solo, where there’s more going on than what they’re letting...

I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there’s a tailor I go to in Naples who’s fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I’d have to kill...

I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like...

I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs… I do quite a few chin-ups...

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as...

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don’t have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We’re very...

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

In terms of theater, there’s not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It’s really kind of a real thrill to go there. I mean, don’t forget, I’m a boy from the suburbs...

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we’d do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.

We met at a party 11 years ago when we were both on first dates with our now wives so we kind of bonded right from the get go.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can’t go through life obsessing about what might have...

I’d sell my soul for a good cause.

Singing is incredibly physical.

I play one of the greatest magicians of the time period. It’s an incredibly original story, a mind bender with twists and turns. The entire script is a magic trick.

My father is a real idealist, and he’s all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding ‘No.’ But if I asked for a saxophone, one...

I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very...

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.

The 58th Annual Tony Awards

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.