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

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

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.

I love Australia - I think.

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

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

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.