Australian Quotes

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.

I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

My greatest honour was to be included in the Australian Olympic team in 1992, 1996 and hopefully 2000.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

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.

I support all Australian films.

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.