I Meditated Before I Hosted The Oscars,

Boring' Can Be A Lot Of Fun. Especially If It's On Your Own Terms.

I'm Not A Loner At All.

My Father Was An Army Champion Boxer... In The British Army. And So He Loved Boxing And Talked It Up As A Sport. But Then When My Brother And I Were Beating The Crap Out Of Each Other, He Was Always Trying To Tone It Down. But I Am A Fan Of Boxing.

If You Get Too Heavy With The Nods And Winks, People Get A Sense That They're Excluded From Something. If They're In Screenings And Everyone's Laughing, And They Don't Know What The Hell It's About, Somehow You Feel Excluded From The Party, Or Like You're Not In The Inner Circle. As A Performer, That's The Worst Thing You Can Do To An Audience. It's Fun, But You Have To Be Very Careful With It.

Both My Parents Are English And Came Out To Australia In 1967. I Was Born The Following Year. My Parents, And Immigrants Like Them, Were Known As '£10 Poms.' Back Then, The Australian Government Was Trying To Get Educated British People And Canadians - To Be Honest, Educated White People - To Come And Live In Australia.