Character Quote by Barry Humphries

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

“Do you love Edna?’. ‘Of course!’ he announced, wildly waving a bottle of champagne in the air, ‘…whoever Edna is.”

— Mrs. Stephen Fry

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

Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her…

— Kate Chopin

People of a certain age still remember me as Edna Garrett. They often want to give me a hug because the character was so…

— Charlotte Rae

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed…

— Ann Patchett

“As the elevator door started to close, she stood and put up one hand to wave goodbye. That’s one of those frozen memories for…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

Obviously, it's the Lucille Balls of the world who helped make humor accessible to women and in a voice that women related to. I…

— Erin Foster

I weave in and out of Ethel. I don't ever want to be so corny to the point of saying, like, 'I have a…

— Ethel Cain

I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.

— Jessica Walter

Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used…

— Barry Humphries

“What's strange about the whole thing is that although it's riddled with nonsense, altogether it's true - Julie's told our story, mine and hers,…

— Elizabeth Wein