Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.
I know lots of people who work in the U.S. but don't live there.
I've played the leads in two British TV series. I've done a bunch of mini-series. Everybody in Australia is a bit in awe of BBC. I've worked for there, and that was a great experience.
I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.
The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.
I think it's fantastic that players can decide to go to China and earn more money.
I certainly like working in Germany.
I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.
I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.
In 1996, the possibility of going to New York came up. From then on, I started searching for opportunities on the international market and the plane became my home.
I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.
Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.
Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here.
I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.
I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.
I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.
I just get offered a lot more work in America than I do in Britain.
Like every Aussie actor, I'd rather be working here; it's just we've all been forced to go to the States. Business-wise, as an actor, it's more lucrative, and there's also a lot more of it there.
I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.
When I was working abroad, there was a time when I almost gave up because of my problem with my working visa in Canada. I remember that I collected bottles of mineral water and sold them to earn extra money.
There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.
