My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

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.

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

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.