I Was Never A Leading Man. I've

I Didn't Know The Green Lantern Comics At All. I Was A Superman Reader.

People Tend To Think Of Brisbane As A Sleepy, Sub-topical Place. I Don't Know. It's Like Baltimore Or Something. I Don't Know. You Would Hear The Family Dramas Going On Behind Closed Doors.

I Suddenly Became Aware Over The Last Couple Of Years That I'm In My Sixties. I Never Thought About It. I Thought I'd Better Start Acting My Age Or Find Roles That Are Going To Be Interesting To Me In The Sexagenarian Repertoire, Because It's Not What You Do In Your Forties Or Fifties.

But As My Voice Coach Keeps Saying, If We Actually Spoke The Way They Imagine The Elizabethan Voice Might Have Been, We Wouldn't Be Able To Understand It.

I Did Not Want To Put Myself On The Line, As An Australian Playing Britains Greatest Comic Actor. The Fans Of Sellers Are Obsessive, Possessive - And Aggressive. I Did Not Want To Risk Their Anger - Or My Own Reputation.