Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter saltwater pool built into the cliffs.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, France, and Switzerland - came when I was 11, and thereafter, we often tagged along on my father's European business trips.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.