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.
BARRY HUMPHRIESAustralia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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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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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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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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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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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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 know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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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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