Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 18)

"I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign"

Chris Hemsworth, Actor

"In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"I am proud to be an actor"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical"

Phillip Adams, Writer

"You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night"

Paul Hogan, Actor

"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46"

Paul Hogan, Actor

"Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions"

Marc Newson, Designer

"So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me"

Marc Newson, Designer

"My life style in a sense is kind of private"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations"

Judith Anderson, Actress

"We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely"

Hugo Weaving, Actor

"I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances"

Hugo Weaving, Actor

"I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting"

Jackie Weaver, Actress

"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right"

Shirley Hazzard, Novelist

"Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen"

Phillip Adams, Writer

"I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required"

Chris Hemsworth, Actor

"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do"

Chris Hemsworth, Actor

"I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"I'm a big goofball, you know. Don't tell anyone that, but I'm a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October"

John Leonard, Poet

"We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too"

Hugo Weaving, Actor

"I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business"

Paul Hogan, Actor

"The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky"

Rod Taylor, Actor