Australian Quotes

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.

I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England.

I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.

Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.

All I do is play football, eat, sleep, play with my kids, play football.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.