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

The best jokes are often only understood by one other person.

The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.

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

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

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

I denied this for many, many years and years ... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.

In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor ... and now I'm a style guru!

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

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

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

I love Australia - I think.

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

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

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

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

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

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

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.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

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.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.

Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.

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

People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.

We all, to some extent, reinvent ourselves. Jeffrey (Archer) has just gone to a bit more trouble.

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

I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.