Yahoo Serious is an Australian actor, director, and writer, born on July 27, 1953, in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. His birth name is Greg Pead, but he is best known by his stage name, Yahoo Serious. He gained international fame for his role in the 1988 comedy film “Young Einstein,” which he also wrote and directed.
“Young Einstein” is a satirical take on the life of physicist Albert Einstein, portrayed by Serious. The film presents a fictionalized and humorous version of Einstein’s early years, with a comedic twist. Serious became known for his unique and eccentric style, both on and off-screen.
While “Young Einstein” achieved some success and earned Serious a nomination for an Australian Film Institute Award, subsequent projects did not achieve the same level of popularity. Despite his limited success in the film industry, Yahoo Serious remains a notable figure in Australian cinema, remembered for his distinctive contributions to the comedy genre.
Yahoo Serious Quotes
1. “Australians don’t have a preconceived notion of what things have to be… we can go on a fantastic journey.”
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2. “In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.”
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3. “We’ve got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.”
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4. “My background was art school, documentary director, and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life-threatening stupidity.”
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5. “The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.”
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6. “It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.”
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7. “You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we’re not like that… we’re more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them – they feel good.”
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8. “It’s an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?”
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9. “Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it’s hard for me then God help everyone else.”
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10. “All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they’re not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.”
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11. “I support all Australian films.”
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12. “The American formula things are out there but they don’t have any stories to tell – we have all the stories to tell – but they’re all formula.”
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13. “Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you’ll ever do on your film.”
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14. “So we have to be careful because if you don’t protect your culture you won’t have it for very long.”
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15. “There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.”
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16. “While the eyes of the world will be on us let’s show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.”
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17. “Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.”
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18. “Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we’d finally cobbled together our low budget film.”
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19. “Making your first feature film is actually impossible.”
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20. “I don’t know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.”
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21. “I kind of worry about that a little bit – we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn’t show any Australian films.”
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22. “Hollywood is horrible… it’s beyond satire.”
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23. “Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won’t and that’s what it’s all about.”
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24. “I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn’t want to give creative control to overseas ’cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you’re sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn’t matter who comes up with the ideas, it’s a collaboration.”
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25. “Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.”
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26. “In a kind of a way there’s a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.”
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27. “Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?”
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28. “Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you’ll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It’s a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.”
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29. “If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we’d just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen – we’re such an amazing race.”
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30. “We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.”
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31. “It’s because we are so flooded with American culture that we’re startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.”
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32. “The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.”
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