Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
BARRY HUMPHRIESAustralia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
BARRY HUMPHRIESHe’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
BARRY HUMPHRIESThe past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
BARRY HUMPHRIESEveryone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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.
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.
BARRY HUMPHRIESThe truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
BARRY HUMPHRIESMy parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI love Australia – I think.
BARRY HUMPHRIESSex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
BARRY HUMPHRIESThe 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.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI 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.
BARRY HUMPHRIESThere is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
BARRY HUMPHRIESNew Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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