I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.

I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.