Bryan Brown Quotations

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

We are prepared to provide help in any way we can to those Fair Grounds personnel who need economic assistance and housing.

Whether that's accurate I don't know. I never talked to Ripley.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

Oh yeah. I'm always dancing on bars. I'm a bloke that loves a drink, and when you're just free and on the loose like we are on films - it happens.

The purpose of the Buddy Walk is to raise awareness and acceptance for individuals with Down syndrome and to main stream society,

I would think if the Chicago Mafia came to Australia today, they would probably think that it was full of blokes who go around wrestling crocodiles - whether that be Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin. But one thing they would not be wondering about is where they could go to get a pizza.

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

It's a different ball game these days, but you're never going to get rid of corruption as long as there's power and money.

It is the most important project to come through I.V., ever. It is a significant project for a community like Isla Vista.

It's new, exciting, anybody from 6 to 66 can do it. Unlike skiing or snowboarding, the learning curve is not as steep.

I offered to do the legal work on that contract. The authority declined to have us do the work for them for free. So the first time I saw the contract it was a done deal.

I approved it as to form. I don't review things for policy.