I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

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.

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

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

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