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I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.

The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.