Quotes About Australia

Playing Australia, of course, is always challenging.

I love Australia because it's a different time of day so I'm asleep through any problems back home.

We're actually more popular in the U.K.; they really get us, and in Australia. In the non-English speaking countries, they don't really get it.

I would love to go to England, Europe and especially Australia. I have a real fantasy about playing in Australia; I would love to get over there.

I must say I always liked to come to Australia.

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

I've never actually played an Australian or worked in Australia. I really want to change that. I really want to work here - that would be great.

Being an Australian that's been No. 1 in the world back home playing in Australia, that's a pretty cool moment to have.

Australian golf did so much for me, and that is why I am here today.

Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.

My dad's Australian.

It's what I always wanted to do, play in the Australian side as a batsman.

When Im older, I would love to write and direct something and work with Australian people.

The best thing I can do for someone who's not in a job is get them in a job, and this government has had the greatest success of any government at getting Australians into work.

I was always drawn to the didgeridoo.

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.

An Australian actor wouldn't have the experience to feel how it is to be in Australia as a European.

Charles Dickens collaborated with the heiress and philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts to set up a 'Magdalen House' to train prostitutes in other trades to prepare them for a new life in Australia.

Australians want progression, Australians want equal rights, they want safer, more compassionate, more harmonious communities, and we're not allowing it to progress in that way. It's very disappointing, knowing Tony Abbott's conservative views, he's clearly not the person to be leading Australia in the present or the future.

In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

Then I went to Australia on a student visa to figure out the next episode in my life and settle there. When nothing seemed to work out, I started driving a taxi to make ends meet.

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia.