Occupation: Comedian Birth: February 17, 1934
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called..
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated..
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find ….
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores..
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion..
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, ….
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. Y….
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit..
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development..
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more..
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live..
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously..
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up..
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human..
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner..
I love Australia - I think..
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother..
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century..
I'm an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so..
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.
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary..