I Never Had A Chance To Learn

I Got A Phone Call From George Miller [the Director] Asking Me To Play This Role. We Sat Down And He Showed Me On His Computer A Documentary-type Montage Sequence Of Real Penguins Swimming, In An Esther Williams Synchronized Sort Of Way, And Doing Things I Have Never Seen Them Do. Then He Explained His Vision Of The Film, Asked Me To Read The Script And To Voice The Character. I Was Cast A Little Bit Later, And He Let Me Do The Singing As Well!

I Come From A Military Family.

I Can Play Any Instrument If You Give Me 20 Minutes.

I Would Hope With All My Heart That People Understand This And See It In The Film. And There Are Also Other Messages In Happy Feet, Like Racial And Environmental Ones, But None Of Them Are So Overt. George Has Made A Great Story About Penguins With A Lot Of Humanity In It And Audiences Can Follow A Species We Don't Know That Well.

I Think If There's Something One Needs To Change With Oneself, It Doesn't Have To Happen In The New Year. You Can Do That Any Time You Please - Not That It's Not A Good Inspirational Tactic For The People That It Works For.