I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

I am proud to be an actor.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.

I was lucky to have a great dad.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

You seek too much information and not enough transformation.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.