You don't leave Australia unless you are passionate. Any Australian actor who comes to America is really committed. There are no dabblers - it's all or nothing.

I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

I love South Australia.

When I first saw the Juicy Wiggle dance in Australia, I fell in love! I had to write about it.

I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing - that's what I'm trying to say.

I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.

I'd love to be on an Australian show and in Australian cinemas - they've really picked up their game.

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'

The Raves of Thrones parties started in Australia and has since spread all over the world. However, no one does it like the Aussies.

I'm expecting big things from our bowlers, from Peter Siddle, who plays the enforcer role, Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee when he gets fit again. In batting, there's Phil Hughes, whose already done well for Australia and scored hundreds for Middlesex.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Playing Australia, of course, is always challenging.

I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion's cage.