Quotes About Australian

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

I think that's the way we play our best cricket, when we're aggressive, we're in the fight together, we're hunting as a pack as one and we're working for each other and backing our mates up on the field. That's part of being an Australian, in my opinion.

I think the Australian public would love to see the best Australian team on the park for every game. It's difficult to do that with the schedule and how much we play.

I'm a very loyal, parochial Australian and I can never say we're going to lose a series.

Technically, the green screen acting can be difficult because there's something worse than a tennis ball on the end of a stick; it's an Australian visual effects assistant running around a field with a cardboard dinosaur head on the end of a stick while wearing sandals.

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

I'd always felt the Australian cricketers' behaviour had been appalling. Tampering the ball too constitutes poor behaviour.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

There's a part of me that's very stereotypically Australian, with the lingo, or for lack of a better way of putting it, the way white Australians would speak. And then, Oh, that's not all I am.

Australian bands are so self-deprecating - then they go on stage and blow every other band off the stage.

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.

She opened her Dictionary of Australian Slang. I'll just put on my sunnies, she said, slipping on sunglasses. I'll spit the dummy if you ankle biters take too long, but if you don't, she'll be apples! Speak English, please, Dan said. If you take too long, dude, you're toast. Got it.

Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it'd be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.

If you're a single Sheila and you're trying to find an Australian bloke, you duck off down there to Australia. You go to the Red Centre: you'll find there's a few shearers, a few stockmen, and there you will find an Australian bloke.

For Australians to make it in the NBA, it's very hard, and for Australians to make it and win an NBA championship is even harder.

There's a really great feeling among the Australians in Hollywood. There's so many of us, and we all support each other, and it's a really nice feeling, being able to sit back and see so many people doing so well.

QVB have a long history of supporting Australian talent.

I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.