Australian Quotes - page 5

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! (David Chalmers)
Few people of the Commonwealth fully realised that the European crisis might involve hostilities in Australian waters – that war might be something that would come to Australia, and not merely something that was happening 12,000 miles away. View quote
Robert Menzies
There's an old Australian stockman -- er, rock band, trying, dying. They get themselves up on their collective elbows, revert to their sixties instrumentation, and they try again. View quote
Rolf Harris
There's an old Australian stockman, lying, dying... and he gets himself up on one elbow, and he turns to his mates, who are gathered 'round him and he says... View quote
Rolf Harris
So he has ensured that while he has respect for the Australian people, respect for Prime Minister Trumble... View quote
Sean Spicer
No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you. View quote
Phoebe Tonkin
When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless. View quote
Ben Chaplin
Revolution or civil war is the only outcome of the present irreconcilable attitude of Australian political parties. The methods of "democracy," far from providing a means of solving the industrial problem, have proved entirely inadequate to the task. Political organization has been mistaken for political education; the party system has accentuated and added to our industrial difficulties. Democracy has done nothing to help society to unanimity, nothing to aid the individual to a sense of social function. View quote
Elton Mayo
What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians? View quote
Alfonso Cuaron
I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world. View quote
Andrew Forrest
We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally. (Ann Macbeth)
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. View quote
Anthony LaPaglia
To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool. View quote
Adrian Smith
In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere. View quote
Aidan Turner
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family. View quote
Bill Drayton
I'd have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home? View quote
Bojana Novakovic
I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. View quote
Barbara Hershey
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. View quote
Bruce Beresford
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool. View quote
Charles Sturt
It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press. View quote
Cameron van der Burgh
Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers. (Christine Milne)
I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders. View quote
Courtney Barnett
In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history. View quote
Catherine Jinks
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic. View quote
Deborah Kara Unger
The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there. View quote
Deborah Mailman