I want to do something big, something important.

All you can take with you is that which you've given away.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day and the next year, and the year after that.

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

Women; can't live with em, can't kill em