Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI’m an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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I’m an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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
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The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
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It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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