Barry Humphries

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

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

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.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.