Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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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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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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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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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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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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I love Australia – I think.
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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 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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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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