Best Dame Edna Quotes

#1. I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

Thomas Browne

#2. My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Dame Edna Everage

#3. And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

Miranda Richardson

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

Dame Edna Everage

#5. There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics.

Dame Edna Everage

#6. I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited.

Neil Gaiman

#7. We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.

Joe Strummer

#8. Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.

Barry Humphries

#9. You mustn't judge Australia by the Australians.

Dame Edna Everage

#10. Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Dick Cavett

#11. I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.

Rachel Joyce

#12. 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.

John Lahr

#13. We had run out of infinity.

David Mitchell

#14. Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

Megan Whalen Turner