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.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there’s no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

To make films like ‘X-Men’ work commercially – and also have some class – is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots...

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the ‘X-Men’ characters, for more than the action. I think that’s what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine,...

[Along with the new characters, producers added more fight scenes to this sequel.] I think that’s one thing we decided was very important as a development, … X2.

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

My favorite play in drama school was ‘The Bacchae.’ It’s about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy – it’s related to the...

It’s always interesting – how do you actually convey thought through song? We’re used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes...

I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it’s a sign that I’m moving up the ladder.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you...

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I’ve worked in Europe, I’ve worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do...

You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.

I don’t think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don’t...

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

My father was an army champion boxer… in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out...

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches every day for...

I know I’m not known as method. By nature I’m not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of...

It’s set in three time zones: 16th-century Spain, present-day America and the distant future, deep space, … lovers in each time zone. It’s kind of a sci-fi love story. The Fountain refers to the search...

[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...

I’ve never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.