- For me, it's very important to feel relaxed in the environment, so I will do things to ensure that occurs. And if there is someone vibing me out, I will either attack or flee.
- I loved the dogs. One of the reasons that Andrew was so excited about me doing this was because I'm a dog freak. I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
- He would punish me much more than he would anyone else, but he was also nicer to me than anyone else on the set.
- I remember the Yearling was the first film I ever saw and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.
- I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what The Big Steal and Spotswood were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people. I'd wanna be playing men by now. I'd be in trouble if I wasn't.
- I think if you have to kiss or kill someone on screen then it's a good idea to talk about it beforehand, just because it makes it easier to go where you need to go.
- [The hardest day on the set of Killing Them Softly (2012)] I discovered that if you eat 40 ice creams in a row you get crook. Yeah, that was bad. That scene we did again and again and it was the hottest, baking day. I was incredibly unwell at the end of that day.
- There seem to be three phases of my working life so far. Once upon a time they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings. Then they thought of me as what in Australia is know as a larrikin, which is kind of a dude, y'know? Very typical Australian man, with this particular set of characteristics. And now I get thought of more or less as the villain. That's more or less how it's gone, it's been those three phases. And in between all that meta framing, there's been a lot of different work. But there's no doubt, it's the Animal Kingdom effect. Before Animal Kingdom I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
- I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
- I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
- 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.
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