I have got a reputation to protect.

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

If you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.

In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.

Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.

I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.

Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.

The country has to change. Productivity in Australia more generally has got to improve. Some of the highest manufacturing costs in the world are coming out of Australia.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.

When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it.

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

The results of recent research on the impacts of climate change dramatically weaken the case for expensive, near-term abatement programs.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.