"I was the hero of Hughes Creek. I can still see the glint in me Da's eye as he looked down at me, his hand on me shoulder. What did he call me that day? Ah, what did Da call me? That's right. He called me Sunshine."

"I wore it seriously, me hero's sash of green and gold - proof that I'd saved a life as well."

"What I best recall is riding alone with the sun behind me, seeing me own shadow cantering ahead against the roadside weeds and willows, and leaving me stretched far behind galloping to chase it. Like a centaur in the picture books."

"I've never shot a man, but if I do, so help me God, you'll be the first!"

"They said I'd lost what it meant to be human, maybe never had it in the first place, but wasn't this about protecting the ones I loved? The ones who gave me food, and shelter, even the clothes on me back? And therefore wasn't it now a war?"

"And wasn't this the challenge of your whole life, Superintendent? A feather in your cap? You can't catch me. You don't have a hope of catching me, so you take my friends instead - over a hundred men arrested, stuck in stinking cells without trial while their crops perish in the fields. And guess what? Not one of 'em caves in and tries to claim the reward. Not one of 'em. They loved me the just same and hated you all the more, didn't they? Did you really think I was gonna let 'em all rot?"

"There's a certain type of black tribesman that bends in the wind. Blends into the background. Mostly he employs the help of the dead to destroy other people. "The Night Dancer", they call him."

"They say the trouble with the Irish is that they rely too much on dreams and not enough on gunpowder. Whereas the English were shy on dreams, as usual, but had plenty of the other. Now we had both."

"So our plans were set. One, the traitor, Aaron Sherritt; dead, as arranged. Two; the police special from Benalla coming to meet us, the line torn up to send the train to hell, as arranged. Three; Superintendent Hare, if he lives, easily worth an outlaw's mother. And four; the townspeople out of harms way, drinks on us, as arranged."

"[last words] Such is life."

"Ah! The monkey's been shot! Poor little bugger!"

"I'm sure there's no harm in being friendly."

"[in the middle of the Glenrowan shootout, right before his death] Jesus Christ, lads, I think I need a drink."

"Like Buffalo Soldiers, Ned Kelly takes a dense novel as its source material - in this case, Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe - and applies liberal amounts of voiceover to both stitch together an episodic narrative and provide a flavour of the book. But Kelly was, of course, more than a book, and Jordan - perhaps hamstrung by a limited budget - elides key episodes, hurries others, and singularly fails to elucidate the precise relationships of the Kelly gang."

"A film about the legendary outlaw whose story outgrew his life"

"You can kill a man but not a legend."

"When the law tried to silence him a legend was born."

"The British Empire branded them as outlaws. The oppressed called them heroes."

"Heath Ledger - Ned Kelly"

"Orlando Bloom - Joe Byrne"

"Geoffrey Rush - Superintendent Francis Hare"

"Naomi Watts - Julia Cook"

"Joel Edgerton - Aaron Sherritt"

"Laurence Kinlan - Dan Kelly"

"Philip Barantini - Steve Hart"

"Kerry Condon - Kate Kelly"

"Kris McQuade - Ellen Kelly"

"Emily Browning - Grace Kelly"

"Erika Felton - young Ellen Kelly"

"Kiri Paramore - Constable Fitzpatrick"

"Rachel Griffiths - Susan Scott"

"Geoff Morrell - Robert Scott"

"Charles "Bud" Tingwell - Premier Graham Berry"

"Andrew Formosa - Park Ranger"

"Saskia Burmeister - Jane Jones"

"Talia Zucker - Sarah Wicks"

"There are a dozen good brood mares in that mob. I'll be back for them... and for whatever else is mine."

"I'm not hiding beneath the skirts of a bunch of women."

"If I'd wanted your help, mate, I would've asked for it."

"Don't throw effort out to foolishness!"

"I haven't had this much feminine attention in years."

"The story of a boy suddenly alone in the world. The men who challenge him. And the girl who helps him become a man."

"Tom Burlinson - Jim Craig"

"Sigrid Thornton - Jessica Harrison"

"Kirk Douglas - Harrison / Spur"

"Terence Donovan - Henry Craig"

"Tommy Dysart - Mountain Man"

"Bruce Kerr - Man in Street"

"David Bradshaw - Banjo Paterson"