My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI 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.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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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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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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 past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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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 have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.
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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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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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