To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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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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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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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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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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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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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 have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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