I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.

The hunger for attention is an enemy of self-love.

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Fidelity is for phonographs

More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.