Sara Pascoe When I was a child, I had an intense fear of going to prison. I wasn’t on the run or anything – my crimes were small and they were all against fashion. But I had nightmares about accidentally killing someone, or being falsely accused. – Sara Pascoe Accidentally Quotes Accused Quotes Child Quotes Crimesly Quotes Fashion Quotes Fear Quotes Intense Quotes Killing Quotes Nightmares Quotes Prison Quotes I didn’t watch TV in the 90s and early 00s. I was too busy trying to grow out a fringe and perm. When I was at university, I did essays on political theatre. And it was really frustrating that the ideas weren’t reaching the people they were talking about. Standup is the one place where you are talking to every level of society.
Graydon Carter There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That’s what an editor does – looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month. – Graydon Carter
Maria Mitchell People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. – Maria Mitchell
Barry Humphries One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I’d lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling. – Barry Humphries
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