Top 15 Aaron Pedersen Quotes

I love comedy, and I’d love to do more of it, but I end up with the work I end up with.

I think we need to take time out in our lives to realign ourselves with country, to realign ourselves with what we have and the beauty of what we have. I think we’ve all just got caught up in this way of life that doesn’t allow us to be intimate with it any more.

I grew up in a number of homes and I grew up without a lot of structure. I understand now that damage is part of the journey. Heartbreak. Loss. Gain.

Uncle Jack Charles and his mob, I wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for their persistence. They worked hard at a time when no one took them seriously and no one even considered indigenous roles as a mainstream option.

I’ve a secret desire to be a tradie really. I wouldn’t mind taking time out to do a carpentry course.

Obviously people loved ‘Mystery Road’, people loved the storytelling aspect of it, people liked the character.

Actors have to have conversations not just with dialogue but with silences.

I don’t know, usually I’m wearing costumes and hats of other characters: to ask me to be Aaron and walk through the country was a great honour, and a great opportunity.

I make sure I have a smile every day for everybody because our stories within it have a darkness and we don’t need to bleed it into real life because people have got their own issues going on. So I’d always come in and be the biggest idiot on set.

Carers are important. They are the unsung heroes.

I always say ‘my career started with Cate Blanchett.’

I just love country. It just felt like that’s the place to go and live life.

I never said I want to be an actor. I just went quietly, quietly, I’m going to do this myself, so I chose the journey in my own way.

I’m not going to be precious about the fact that I’m not getting all these other particular roles because there’s nothing wrong with the ones I’m getting. It doesn’t matter if I play cops for the rest of my life. That’s called a career.

We don’t want to share our personal problems or personal journey, it’s too private – but we should be proud to be carers; it’s hard work, it’s true work, it’s unconditional love.