Australian Outback Quotes

Canberra always had a great sense of community when I was there.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!

I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.

For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback. And then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo.

The Australian Outback can be quite unforgiving.

I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

So far, my trip in Australia has been absolutely lovely - wonderful country, wonderful people... And then there's Melbourne.

The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.

Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it.

One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.

Mystery Road' hadn't been shown in Scandinavia but I read the script and I just had to do it.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

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.

The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.

We intend to bring fun and family activities to the American market from Down Under, where we believe we have some of the best fishing in the world and the best conservative approach to fishing through catch, kiss, and release.

I was lucky enough to grow up in Western Australia and know that the Australian Outback is vast and spell-binding and heart-stoppingly beautiful, and the characters that inhabit it are unique and hilarious and tough and cheeky.