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

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

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

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

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.

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.