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Time & Perspective Quote by Liam Hemsworth

"How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney"

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Hemsworth lands a tiny, perfect culture-clash joke by treating a squirrel like a celebrity cameo. The opening question, "How comedic are squirrels?", isn’t really about rodents; it’s about the way Americans (and American media) romanticize the ordinary. In the U.S., squirrels are background noise. In Australia, they’re absent enough to become mythic. That gap lets him frame a common animal as inherently funny, like it arrives pre-packaged with cartoon timing.

The second line does the real work: "We don't have squirrels in Australia". It’s a quick credentialing move that establishes him as the outsider, which gives permission to be amazed by something locals overlook. The humor comes from scale: he’s an A-list actor, but his most memorable first encounter with a squirrel is delivered with the gravity of a life event.

Then he spikes it with "at a meeting at Disney", a setting that’s almost too on-brand. Disney is the global factory for turning animals into personalities, sidekicks, and marketable quirks. So of course the first squirrel appears there - not in a park, not on a street, but in the headquarters of anthropomorphism. The subtext is sly: Hollywood’s ecosystem is so mediated that even wildlife feels like part of the pitch deck.

It also reads as a soft self-mock. Hemsworth is acknowledging the absurdity of his own context - meetings at Disney - while keeping the tone light. The charm is that he never asks you to admire his celebrity; he invites you to laugh at how it warps basic experiences, down to the moment a squirrel becomes a punchline.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hemsworth, Liam. (2026, January 15). How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/how-comedic-are-squirrels-we-dont-have-squirrels-172458/

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Hemsworth, Liam. "How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/how-comedic-are-squirrels-we-dont-have-squirrels-172458/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/how-comedic-are-squirrels-we-dont-have-squirrels-172458/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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Liam Hemsworth

Liam Hemsworth (born January 13, 1990) is a Actor from Australia.

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