Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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 love Australia – I think.
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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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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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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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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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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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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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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 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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