If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
BARRY HUMPHRIESIt’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 have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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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 truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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I love Australia – I think.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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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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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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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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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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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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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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