Cannot Quote by Barry Humphries

What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking…

— Barry Humphries

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want…

— Rory Kennedy

In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a…

— Barry Humphries

My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she…

— Steven Wright

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

— Sasha Pivovarova

Every character I do has a bit of my mum in her. She's like the doyenne of Dayton, Ohio.

— Allison Janney

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call…

— John Lahr

I don't think I'm good enough to bring alive the character of my mother, even if it is on screen. Besides, my mother was…

— Pooja Bedi

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

— Angie Dickinson

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

— Penny Marshall

I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

— Pat Conroy

There are a lot of kids out there that look at me as their mother, and I have my two biological children, and there…

— Michelle Visage