I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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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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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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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 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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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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 like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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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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