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" 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. "

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Patriotism

War

Grief

" Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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People

Myself

" If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it. "

" The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can. "

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Trying

People

" There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows. "

" When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents. "

" I have respect for beer. "

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Respect

Beer

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Know

Injury

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

" 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. "

" My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch. "

" I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat. "

" The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience. "

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Time

Wife

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

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Moments

Everyone

" I've followed Leeds since I was a little kid. I used to come home from sport in the afternoon, me and my brother, and watch 'Match of the Day.' I love the club. I want nothing but success for the club. "

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Home

Success

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it. "

" 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. "

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Twisted

Plan