To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.