Australia famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.
-- Adam Garcia -
Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
-- Adelaide Clemens -
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
-- Adrian McKinty -
I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries.
-- Alice Englert -
I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.
-- Andre Benjamin -
It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.
-- Andrew Bogut -
Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
-- Andrew Bogut -
Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
-- Andrew Forrest -
Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
-- Andrew Forrest -
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.
-- Andrew Strauss -
I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
-- Andy Gibb -
In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.
-- Ann Macbeth -
I've been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock.
-- Anthony Head -
I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
-- Ava Gardner -
The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.
-- Barack Obama -
He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.
-- Barack Obama -
I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
-- Barbara Hershey -
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else
-- Barry Gibb -
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.
-- Barry Humphries -
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow
-- Ben Chifley -
Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.
-- Bill Shorten -
I read the Phantom comics when I was in Australia shooting 'Dead Calm'' and when one of the crew told me that there were plans for a movie, I went for it. That was in 1987 and I told (producer) Graham Burke I was going to be the Phantom. We had a laugh about that recently because you usually get what you deserve, not what you desire, and that is especially true in Hollywood!
-- Billy Zane -
There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
-- Bob Brown -
Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
-- Bob Brown -
My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
-- Bob Hawke -
I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.
-- Bon Scott -
And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.
-- Brandon Routh -
It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice.
-- Brett Lee -
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
-- Brian Schmidt -
Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.
-- Brigitte Nielsen -
Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.
-- Bruce Chatwin -
Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.
-- Cadel Evans -
There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.
-- Cate Blanchett -
The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in, you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.
-- Catherine Helen Spence -
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.
-- Catherine Helen Spence -
There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life
-- Catherine Helen Spence -
As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.
-- Catherine Helen Spence -
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
-- Catherine Helen Spence -
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
-- Catherine Helen Spence -
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
-- Charles Darwin -
On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'â€
-- Charles Darwin -
In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
-- Chris Lilley -
I feel really qualified to write about Australia.
-- Chris Lilley -
Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
-- Chris Lilley -
I LOVE Australia! Its like my second home.
-- Christopher Atkins -
It's a perfect day here in Australia, glorious blue sunshine
-- Christopher Martin-Jenkins -
After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour and the behaviour of our leaders. Accuse me of playing the gender card all you like, but I will not walk past it any more. You might consider joining me.
-- Clementine Ford -
What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included - just don't consider the beating down of women to be of any consequence. Half the time they won't even acknowledge it, let alone take a stand against it, preferring instead to gaslight women and pretend it's all in their head. Are these the kinds of people we want making decisions for us? The ones who think mockery about women's genitals is bad when it targets no one in particular, but OK when it targets the Prime Minister?
-- Clementine Ford -
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks
-- Clive James -
Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.
-- Clive James -
The Greens have not been providing you with the full information about where their money comes from or what it's about. I think the Greens in this upcoming state election should resign if they're being funded by an offshore political power. It's tantamount to treason and something needs to be done about it.
-- Clive Palmer -
People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view.
-- Clive Palmer -
I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.
-- Colm Toibin -
Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
-- Damon Hill -
Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.
-- Dannii Minogue -
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.
-- David Abram -
I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
-- David Attenborough -
I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.
-- David Gerrold -
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.
-- David Holmgren -
Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.
-- David Wenham -
When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.
-- Deborah Kara Unger -
I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'
-- Delta Goodrem -
The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).
-- Demetri Martin -
My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
-- Desmond Llewelyn -
I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.
-- Dianna Agron -
There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me
-- Donald Bradman -
Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.
-- Donald Horne -
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.
-- Douglas Adams -
New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
-- Dustin Clare -
I have always been attracted to Australians and Australia.
-- Elizabeth Hurley -
I don't have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I'd like to buried naked. It's a way of life in Australia.
-- Elle Macpherson -
In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!
-- Ellie Goulding -
As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.
-- Elliot Perlman -
Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.
-- Emily Browning -
I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.
-- Eric Bana -
I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.
-- Eric Bana -
I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.
-- Eric Bristow -
There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.
-- Ernest Istook -
If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living
-- Errol Flynn -
I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense
-- Errol Flynn -
I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some
-- Errol Flynn -
You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance
-- Errol Flynn -
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion
-- Errol Flynn -
It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick
-- Errol Flynn -
I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich
-- Errol Flynn -
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
-- Errol Flynn -
Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.
-- Fiona Wood -
If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.
-- Frank Hardy -
Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.
-- Fred Phelps -
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
-- Fritz Sauckel -
Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug
-- Geoffrey Blainey
