“The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.” 

“There are some desires that are not desirable.” 

“If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.”

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” 

“Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship.

“There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.”

I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of get together occasionally, but I wouldn't say it's an alliance or anything like that.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

The show must go on.

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

If you see it there, darling, then it's there.

It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”