I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962 and I was ready to make music.

I used to be good with kids but as I get older I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party you couldn't pay me enough.

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

My biggest hero Gregory Peck was my birthday present on April 14 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

I hate birthdays.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

The return of my birthday if I remember it fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said 'Remember my son if you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents you know.

It is lovely when I forget all birthdays including my own to find that somebody remembers me.

The way I see it you should live everyday like its your birthday.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

All the world is birthday cake so take a piece but not too much.

Every year on your birthday you get a chance to start new.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.