I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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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’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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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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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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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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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’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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