The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

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

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.

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.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.