- Has denied reports he has signed a deal to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in the next 007 movie. (August 6, 2004)
- During downtime on the set of TROY, Eric Bana and Brad Pitt make their trailers, which were right next to each other, a bar, where all cast and crew could do was sit around and drink.
- Denies rumors that he may star as the next James Bond. (May 8, 2004)
- A close friend of Hugh Jackman.
Quotes- "I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life."
- "I think I've been fortunate, and right now I'm in an incredibly fortunate position, which I'm totally aware of. I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there."
- On being a motor-head: "It's a part of who I am and I get stupid amounts of enjoyment from it."
- On stand-up comedy in his early career: "It was a fulfilling feeling to make strangers laugh and I've been hooked ever since!"
- On describing himself: "I can be introverted and silent, or I can let off steam in the more traditional means."
- On acting as a career: "I never for a second envisioned that I would end up here but I most definitely felt as a child that this is what I wanted to do. Ever since I was just past being a baby, I did mimicry, characters and impressions and had no idea that was useable in a professional sense until I got much older."
- On his stand-up comedy: "I don't have in me a desire to be a joker and I've never been one to want to make a room full of people laugh unless they are friends and I like doing impressions and stuff. But to me, it was a medium. My stand-up comedy was never really jokey, but more anecdotal and storytelling which is probably why sketch-comedy to me was a much better fit and where I really kind of found my feet."
- On being caught by a cop at a gas station, in only underwear, taking a shower under a water pipe, at age 21: "It's alright mate, I'm Australian."
- On the luxurious hair of the TROY cast: "That's why the film took so long to shoot. Three weeks in the makeup chair, for like, one day of shoot."
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