Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
BARRY HUMPHRIESIt’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.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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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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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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 was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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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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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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I love Australia – I think.
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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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