Melbourne Quotes

I`m from Melbourne - it`s a city of about 3 million - but when you`re growing up in a place like that and you think it`s quite a big city, and then you travel around and you go, "Actually . . . no." So when I go back now, Melbourne feels like a country town. My mum will be in like 15 cars of traffic and she`ll be complaining. And I`m like, "That`s not traffic, I`m sorry!"

"I`m so happy that my costumes have found a home here in Melbourne, my home town, where I know they will be cared for and preserved. Its just such an honour that the Performing Arts Collection wanted it all. What I imagine people will want to see is the wear and tear, the ingrained make-up after fifty shows, where the audio-pack rubs these are things that for me, bring costumes to life."

(re jokes about "where the Two Towers were really located," that is, rumors about gay affection among the hobbits:) "I think it`s because we`re all young, good-looking guys. We`re kind of cheeky, and we`re very physically tactile with one other. I love those guys. I don`t (have) any qualms about it. They`re my brothers, and I don`t have any problem showing affection for men. I`m aware of my own sexuality enough to be free with people." (quoted in MX (Melbourne, Australia), December 16, 2003)

I love being at home in Melbourne, reading scripts, doing the gardening and running around after my wife.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

Surprisingly enough, I haven`t had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it`s almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn`t say that because I haven`t been everywhere-and I`m very fond of Perth too!

I`ve got a good feeling about this team. Next week will be an excellent measure of our level at this stage and what we need to do to get to the next level for Melbourne.

I`ve been writing stories since I was a kid, and James and I had been talking about wanting to make a film for many years before this. Even though we wrote the film as a means to an end, so that James would have something to direct and I could have something to act in, it wasn`t a slough for me to get through it because I love writing. It took me a long time only because I felt like it was all or nothing, that this script had to be good enough to compete at a world level. We didn`t want it to be something that was something that was pretty good for a couple of guys from Melbourne. We wanted it to be a good film on a par with other independent films like Run, Lola, Run and Pi and Memento, these cool thrillers that had ticking-clock gimmicks to them. They`re the type of films we wanted to be up there with. (on `Saw`)

We`re giving kids the opportunity to come to Melbourne, from across Australia, from the cape to Shepparton in Victoria and from the Kimberleys to the Tiwi Islands - this is part of an initiative from Qantas and the AFL and we`re looking at the new Adam Goodes or Andrew McLeod.

It`s going to be a huge challenge facing Australia with the home support behind them. These Games will be tougher than ever before with that in mind and taking into account the strong teams that South Africa, Canada and New Zealand will have in Melbourne.

We`ve competed against a number of our possible opponents over the last few years and we believe we`re now ready to do our very best in Melbourne.

We find competition is more from interstate, probably Melbourne,

It is always going to be difficult in one sense in Melbourne with the way the focus will come on to St Kilda but we went through that a little bit last year and I think we handled it pretty well,

We know that Jeff received lucrative offers from other clubs. Jeff was keen to remain at Melbourne and hopes to be part of something special over the next few years,

Overall it was a positive day and I`m in good stead for Melbourne.

A person was evicted yesterday for using racist and offensive language. I believe this is the first time this has happened at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground).