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

I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.

What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

A lot of people, for reasons I can't understand, are puzzled to learn I drive. In fact I have been driven since I was 18 and have never had an accident or been clamped.

I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

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