In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

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.

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.

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.

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

What Zayd had said to her was hurtful. The words speared across the most sensitive part of her heart like how a gardening spear cut along the leaves, leaving the top part of the bushes bare and lost.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

That's really the fundamental question we face here in the beginning of this 21st century is whether or not we believe as a nation and others believe it is possible to defeat this ideology.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

I love films that don't end when they end, that go on in your head a couple of days later.