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" I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age. "

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" I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself. "

" South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing. "

" There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. "

" You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing. "

" At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get. "

" God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. "

" There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free. "

" I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film. "

" Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981. "

" No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 - when I was particularly busy filming overseas - you can't become a citizen. "

" I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed. "

" I didn't get married to get divorced. "

" Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip. "

" I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me. "

" I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working. "

" I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland. "

" You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do. "

" I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course. "

" I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise. "

" Directing is like looking at the stars on a cloudless night. You get away from all light sources, and you look up, and you see 50 points of light. And a minute later 100 and another minute later 1,000 and then 10,000. And then this swirling gigantic carpet above you, and somehow it all seems to connect. "

" My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that. "

" Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession. "

" I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing. "

" I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated. "

" I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders. "

" If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller. "

" I suppose 'Gladiator' could be a Western - if you were writing your review in Athens, that is! To be honest, we didn't really think that way at the time. But there is common ground. And they both have horses - I liked that, obviously. "

" When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director! "

" I have respect for beer. "

" I lost my front tooth in rugby league when a fat guy from Bellevue Hill kicked me in the face as I got up from a tackle to mark him. I made this decision not to cap the tooth because I thought it was false. But I didn't make any movies as a teenager, and I had a very hard time with girls and stuff. "