He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
BARRY HUMPHRIESHe’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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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 like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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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I love Australia – I think.
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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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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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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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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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