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

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

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.

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

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

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

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.