Famous Australia Quotes

#1. When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Ethel Barrymore

#2. Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

Roy Baumeister

#3. I'd tell you to fetch a match, but you have always had your own spark.

Courtney Milan

#4. In everything we do, in order to succeed, we must believe in ourselves; that we are highly motivated achievers.

Ellen J. Barrier

#5. Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.

Anne Lamott

#6. I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love.

Douglas Wilson

#7. I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#8. Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

Frank Frazetta

#9. Here was my whole life hanging on his one word! Surely I was serious enough?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

Julie Christie

#11. 'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

Robert B. Parker

#12. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.

Mandy Hale

#13. I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.

Alan Dale

#14. The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.

Nathaniel Branden

#15. My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

Christopher Lee

#16. A lot of artists get famous overseas first. I don't know what it is here. I have a large underground following in the U.S., but I don't get the airplay as much as I do in, say, Australia. Over there, they can play whatever they like, it seems, but not so much here.

Wynter Gordon

#17. He was on the edge of a cliff. And he wasn't jumping, he was diving, a huge swan dive, like those famous cliff-top divers in some exotic place he'd seen on television once. Only they landed safely, bodies cutting into seawater like knife blades.

And his dive was a killing one.

B.D. Roca

#18. In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

Tammin Sursok

#19. Nature is stronger than education.

Benjamin Disraeli

#20. It's all about getting the hand of things. Easy does it; take it easy. You'll figure everything out in time. But for right now, just keep trying. Pay attention and avoid the temptation to go further than you're ready. Talk less. And listen more.

Kate Jacobs

#21. I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up as a kid, I wasn't. I was like a dork, fat, so for me it's really weird. I became famous in Australia when I was 18, and I was still a little bit chubby.

Sophie Monk