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I like the unknown. I like mystery.
I've always been a bit of a car freak.
I'm always one time zone behind myself.
I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.
My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
I would never say never to returning to comedy.
I'm not into bikinis or other revealing clothing.
I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.
I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.
I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.
The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.
I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.
It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.
I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.
Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.
I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.
I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.
I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.
I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.
I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.
It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.
The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.
I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.
If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.
I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.
I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.
The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.
As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.
A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.
I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.
I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.
I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.
I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.
I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.
Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.
I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.
I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.
I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.
By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.