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

I have got a reputation to protect.

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.

Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge dogma, tradition, and injustice in appropriate and constructive ways is its highest purposes.

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

Magnus wants to shout at me, don’t you, Magnus?” (Jace) “Yes,” Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl. -pg.275-

Dear Sweetheart, do you ever think of me? Just the other day I was thinking of you. I'm pretty sure it was you.

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Medicine has always been my calling.