Robert Forster Quotations

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

There is an obvious advantage to the UK industry if its beef is sold in a different section of the chill cabinet to imports because consumers are likely to pay more for beef from their country of choice and we know UK beef is attractive to purchasers who are more likely to pay a premium.

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.

Somehow I think it would end up a folk-rock album if it came to pass.

Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles.

The export ban has forced our beef industry to suffocate in isolation but now there is a chance it can be revived by the financial oxygen generated through access to a wider range of freer-spending customers.

Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you've got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean.

It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.

I liked Jim Carrey from the very beginning.

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.

I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.

I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader application. I ran into a magazine called 'Speakers For Free.'

I do try to be resentful, I really do, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

Grant wrote the melody and it wouldn't leave my head, so I grabbed it and started work on the lyrics. It worked really well, too.

You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.