Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
BARRY HUMPHRIESNever be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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 have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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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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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’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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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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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 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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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