To Give Tinker Bell A Voice For

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 Have Never Tried [cocaine] In My Entire Life. I've Never Even Seen It. ... I Am Also Way Too High-strung. I Can't Even Take A Sudafed. Can You Imagine? My God. I Think My Heart Would Explode.

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 Consider Myself A Character Actor.

I Come From A Military Family.