Quotes

[speech at the Academy Awards] There are three Gs to accepting an award: Be Gracious ... Be Grateful ... and Get Off!

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But Angelinos are different!

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

[on Pauline Hanson] She's a pelican, yeah. Outrageous, so racist... She's living in the past, obviously.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

Come and say G'day! I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you!

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

[on his breakout role as Crocodile Dundee] The movie scene is screaming out for the movie hero who doesn't kill 75 people... less of those commandos, terminators, ex-terminators and squashers. Mick's a good role model. There's no malice in the fellow and he's human. He's not a wimp or a sissy just because he doesn't kill people.