“I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.”
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Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.
Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz, ' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.