“I feel like I’m nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.”

I’m trying to get across the message that don’t be afraid of animals, they’re just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

I really think I like poisonous snakes.

You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

There is someone special in my life right now, and I’m really happy with that, life is wonderful at the moment.

Every time you lose an animal, it’s like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

If there’s one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy’s reserve.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

It shouldn’t be this awkward situation. It should be that we’re there, having a great time.

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

Don’t be an extra in your own movie. Move out of your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid of feeling uncomfortable or awkward. Step-out and make it happen.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.