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.

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.

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.

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.