I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

You’ll get lost and then you’ll find it.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.