Greatest Australian Quotes

#1. When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the United States. The alleged greatest Australian wine, Penfolds Grange, wasn't imported to the United States. There were no by-the-glass programs. Sommeliers were intimidating.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#2. We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

Yahoo Serious

#3. If you're going to be a star, you should look like one.

Tom Jones

#4. If they're friends, then they've got your back . . . whether you're there or not. Friends won't "forget" about you.

Svetlana Chmakova

#5. By non-action everything can be done.

Anonymous

#6. If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

Yahoo Serious

#7. I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

Geoffrey Rush

#8. I really do believe the final act in play is a crisis in our financial institutions, which are doing such dumb, dumb things,

Michael Lewis

#9. Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

Nick Cave

#10. Stand tall like a tower.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Annie Leibovitz