I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
BARRY HUMPHRIESIf you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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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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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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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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I love Australia – I think.
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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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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 have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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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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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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