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.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

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

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

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

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, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

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

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

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

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

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.