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

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.

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.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people.

It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell!

People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.