Australian Culture Quotes

I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.

Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.

Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at least, Aussies don't really care that much about celebrities or things like that.

Australian wine and Australian women - that's my weak point. Ha ha ha ha.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

Come and say G'day!

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.

I find the Aussies are great and just let you be. The odd time, somebody has something smart to say, but it's very rare.

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

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 think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.

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

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.

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.

When I first came to Australia, one thing that struck me was how everything closed early. Singapore is very much a 24/7 place. You can get good food any time of the day - in the middle of the night, even.

With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

I lived for a couple of years when I was 9 years old on beautiful Aboriginal sacred land in a town of a thousand people in northwestern Australia. It's where the Aborigines are still very connected to their culture, the Dreamtime culture. It was really quite a special experience.