Top 45 Melbourne Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Melbourne Quotes from famous people such as Graeme Base, Elizabeth Debicki, Stella Young, Greig Fraser, Leigh Whannell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.
Graeme Base
When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I’d finally found my place in life.
Elizabeth Debicki
It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city ‘livable’ for you.
Stella Young
It was very confronting after growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne, then going to India. There’s such a different emphasis on everything: food, family, hygiene, love, marriage. It’s why it’s so exciting, why it’s so beautiful.
Greig Fraser
I grew up in Melbourne.
Leigh Whannell
Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.
William John Wills
On New Year’s Eve, 2000, my friends and I were going to a party in Melbourne and I decided to do it in drag. It was the happiest night of my life.
Courtney Act
Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation.
Santiago Durango
At 17 I was graduating and didn’t know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.
Beauden Barrett
The most special Slam is Wimbledon, of course. But where I feel the best is Melbourne. And you’re happy that you’re playing. When you get to the middle of the season, everything is week after week, and it’s all routine. But when it’s Melbourne in January, you are fresh and you want to play. It’s nice.
Marin Cilic
You never know how it’s going to work out. I thought I was ready for the next challenge when I left Melbourne, maybe I was a bit more mature and a bit older.
Aaron Mooy
I probably get a bit more backlash in Australia than I do in America, to be honest. I was never invited to the Melbourne Comedy Festival because I was too gross, things like that. Which never happened in any other country.
Jim Jefferies
I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.
Ben Mendelsohn
We didn’t know how it was going to go but it was always going to be hard for me to go straight from Melbourne into Manchester City’s first team. It was always the plan for me to go on loan.
Aaron Mooy
The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group.
Guan Tianlang
It’s not all about strength, there is so much more involved, getting the horse into a rhythm, getting the horse to try for you, it’s being patient and I’m so glad to win Melbourne Cup and hopefully, it will help female jockeys from now on to get more of a go.
Michelle Payne
We’re building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.
Denis Napthine
I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.
Peter Temple
The first time I ever wore a shoe was in 1955 during the trials for the Melbourne Olympics.
Milkha Singh
You have a character who is wearing a scarf on her head on a billboard in LA, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. That’s how I would face barriers being thrown at me.
Lilly Singh
The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents’ houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.
Ben Mendelsohn
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, ‘Son, be an architect,’ and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.
Max Walker
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She’s a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
Barry Humphries
I just love the culture of Melbourne.
Yvonne Strahovski
I’m still very much plugging away. But if I can build my career, I’ll do it like Eric Bana. He has a family; he has his roots. He still loves Melbourne. He’s a great role model to have.
Nathan Phillips
Moving to Flagstaff from the big city of Melbourne taught me what it takes to become a better runner. For one, there is the altitude, but more importantly, seeking the best is about being surrounded by the best.
David McNeill
My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just naturally took place more in Melbourne.
Jens Lekman
In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn’t partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.
Michael Leunig
I discovered in Melbourne how wonderful it is to be part of a successful team, when good morale spreads throughout the squad, among athletes and coaches and infects you like a virus – but one that you want to catch.
Chris Hoy
I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren’t very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We’re in the ‘History of Rock’N’Roll,’ a book about Perth music.
Paul Eenhoorn
Ian Carroll grew up in Melbourne, went to Carey Grammar and then studied political science at Monash University during the turbulent years of anti-Vietnam rebellion.
Norman Swan
My dad taught at the University of Melbourne. I visited

My dad taught at the University of Melbourne. I visited Sydney another time. Then we went up to Cairns, then down the Great Ocean Road. I have friends from Perth, where I’ve never been, so I’d love to do that.
Miriam Shor
Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
Naftali Bennett
I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out for a walk, ride a bike, go to a cafe or something. When it’s raining, when it’s a miserable day, I just sit down at my desk and get some work done.
Adrian McKinty
Melbourne is very sophisticated and edgy – we wear a lot of black. Things are lightening up a little bit, but truly, everything looks good in black.
Jessica Hart
Sydney has taken my money, Melbourne has my respect, but Adelaide has taken my heart; I shall return.
Miriam Margolyes
Melbourne is a great city and one of the favorites place on tour for many players.
Kiki Bertens
I really miss Melbourne food; Melbourne is very snobbish about their caffe culture, and I feel like I’ve become a snob, too.
Angourie Rice
All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.
Isobelle Carmody
If you can play at a higher level, it’s great. But Melbourne City, the club’s growing, it’s got everything now with the facilities and the professionalism here is first class so it’s not a bad place to be at all.
Aaron Mooy
But it’s been perfect – where you grew up is where you relax. It’s been the most perfect thing to have the country lifestyle again after my fall and after the Melbourne Cup.
Michelle Payne
I love Melbourne and South Yarra’s perfect for high tea.
Adriano Zumbo
I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person – body, mind and spirit.
Olivia Newton-John
I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It’s just so much better here than anywhere else. It’s better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.
Curtis Stone
At first I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, because most of the comedy was shot in Melbourne, and then from Melbourne to Los Angeles – and you have to sacrifice stuff.
Rebel Wilson