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I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!? and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you do not want to stand out. You do not want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I am a product of nepotism. That is how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, You are not a father. I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I am not Hugh Jackman. I am not a dad. I am not a husband. I am just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I do be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

I do not know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

I did not know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, I did not always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed. My parents always provided that.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

My dad played fiddle as well.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.

My friends say, Man you are going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You are going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff. I guess now that I am a dad, I am thrilled about that.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

I have never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we are enjoying it, but I do stop if it is not possible.

My dad used to say, Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it Does not influence your intelligence.