Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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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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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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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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I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don’t feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It’s worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.
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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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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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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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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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I love Australia – I think.
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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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