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.
Eric Bana
I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.
I'm always one time zone behind myself.
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.
When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.
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.
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 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.
You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.
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.
When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.
I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.
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.
I've always been a bit of a car freak.
I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.
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.
I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.
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 hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.
I'm not into bikinis or other revealing clothing.
The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.
I like the unknown. I like mystery.
The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.
It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.
I'm a bit of a romantic.
I would never say never to returning to comedy.
I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.
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.
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?
I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.
My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.
I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.
I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.
I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.
I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.
If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.
The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.
It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.
The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.
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.
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.
I've given no thought to moving to America at all.
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.
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.
Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.
