For two weeks I worked behind the players’ bar at Bolton Wanderers football club – footballers don’t tip.

I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty.

I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.

I used to clean the ovens in a bakery. Brillo pad and poison.

we are bashed by the media who say we should compete with Hollywood.

His name is Barry Humphries but you may be more familiar with him from his character, Dame Edna, a self-styled international superstar. I’d say he’s hitting pretty close to the genius description because back in the 1950s, he asked cultural questions that others neglected to ask or even consider.

Maybe it’s a little about self-belief.

Being alone in a room with a tiger: a recurring dream, never reality, fortunately.

I wanted my children to grow up in Australia, and if I have anything to pass on to them as a parent as a mentor, it is my own experiences of having grown up there, and shaped a career there.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine.