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On
the dreaded paparazzi:
" It makes front
page news if you eat fettuccine on Tuesday, you know? It's very
invading. All of a sudden you're very self-aware, very
self-conscious about the way you drink water. I'm not
used to that."
The Globe and Mail,
May 5, 2001
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On what he inherited from his mother:
"Sensitivity and acceptance.
She's a very warm, caring woman."
by Mary Black, Dolly magazine
01 May 2001
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On
Not being
interested bed-hopping antics like his character
Casanova:
"I take great pride in my soul
and the consistency and longevity of my love,
and I think everyone can
fantasize about the notion of being a Casanova, or experiment that
way when they are younger,
but I'm certainly not in that place now at this moment in my life."
eitb24, 05 September 2005
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On
growing up with his mom & sisters:
" I
learned respect for women, and patience.
You grow up with all those
women around you . . .
you
learn to wait your turn."
Cosmopolitan
magazine, June 1998
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" I want to keep that all my life-the choice to say no.
I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood ...
I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop
having fun, I'll just
walk away."
Vanity Fair, 01 August 2000
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On turning down teen scripts after 10
Things:
"I just wanted to
protect my career, I
guess.
What I discovered after
that was people in
Hollywood
can't hear "no".
They don't like to hear
"no".
And so I had a lot of
fun saying "no" for a
year. . . .
But you know, look, the
last five months of that
hard-to-get period
just flipped around.
It was like,
"Come on, employ me."
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"I think in order to mature as a person and
mature as an actor, you need to push yourself and test yourself
and do things you're afraid of."
The Advocate Magazine
December 2005
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On
his fellow Aussie actors:
"We definitely all know each other... but
there's
no conspiracy. We don't sit around planning
some
great overthrow."
08 December 2005
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" I
don't have a technique. I've never been a believer
in having one set technique on how to act. There are
no rules and there is no rulebook. At the end of the
day, it all comes down to my instincts. That's the
one thing that guides me through every decision
professionally. Socially, also.
That's my technique."
Reel.com,
May 2001
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" The last few years I've been doing a lot
of print artwork.
I blow up prints, black and white prints
generally, and I scratch away on the surface. Then I paint on the
prints and I scratch away and then paint on the paper underneath."
A
KNIGHT'S TALE INTERVIEW by PAUL FISCHER in Los Angeles
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" You know, because the one thing that's
got me to where I'm sitting is my instincts, you know, and I'm
impatient. I didn't want to wait for years to work. I wanted
to just
get out there and do it."
60 Minutes
Australia,
AAugust 12, 2001
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"I'm having a child in a month or so, and the timing couldn't be
better because there's all this hype and excitement about this
movie. I've got a lot of films that I'm promoting right now, and
it's all so insignificant in comparison to meeting my child."
The Advocate
December 2005
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" I'm the worst auditioner, really, really bad. I mean, you're being
judged and I'm just so aware of it that it consumes me. I can't
relax, I'm tied in knots, so the voice is very taut and tense.
You're so aware that you're acting 'cause you're sitting across from
this lady with a piece of paper who's going, ''I'm. Going. To.
Shoot. You. If. You. Don't. Blah, blah, blah,'' in this emotionless
voice.
It's foul. I hate it."
EW.com, May 2001
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On
his preference for doing film over TV:
" I prefer to have the
time to busy
the canvas, select the
paint, and create a
masterpiece,
rather than doing a
comic book."
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On
his hometown:
". . . to me Perth is paradise. Nothing
but blue skies and blue ocean for miles.
No other place in
the world can compare to
my hometown. It's Eden
on earth.
If my career stopped
tomorrow I would be
content to go back
there,
spending my time sitting
on the beach and
surfing with my mates."
(2000)
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"I certainly have an appreciation
for love, and Casanova was a man who really fell in
love with each woman or man – as opposed to Don
Juan, who woke up the next day and laughed in their
faces.
"I, too, have that appreciation
for love –
just not with so many women!"
Sydney Daily Telegraph
05 September 2005
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"Australians are the world's greatest at cutting you down to size,
and I'd better not forget it. I just have to remember not to take
myself too seriously."
Contact Music.com
07 December 2005
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" I
don't have a method to my madness...For me, acting is more about
self-exploration. I've learned a lot about myself in order to learn
about the craft. How many kings can you find to play a king? You
can't find them. When I act, I look at it as if I'm a mixing
board in a sound studio. The pattern on the board is me. When I play
a character, I go, ' I'll turn these knobs down and these ones up.'
But in order to do that I have to know myself like an instrument.
I'm just a saxophone."
Vanity Fair, 01 August 2000
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" I don't see why it's such a hard thing
NOT to keep grounded, and keeping grounded is just a way of saying:
' How do you stay yourself? How do you NOT
change into ANOTHER person?'
I find it hard to, like, CHANGE into
another person. I don't want to and I don't feel the need to have to
fill shoes and live up to expectations and be worried about people
judging me, but who gives a shit? I DON'T. What I'M worried about is
MY personal life, my friends and family, and THAT doesn't change.
And as long as that doesn't change, I
don't change."
A KNIGHT'S TALE
INTERVIEW by PAUL FISCHER in Los Angeles
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