Barry Humphries
"Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary."
Barry Humphries
"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."
Barry Humphries
"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."
Barry Humphries
"I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them."
Barry Humphries
"I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman."
Barry Humphries
"Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores."
Barry Humphries
"People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten."
Barry Humphries
"I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!"
Barry Humphries
"I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life."
Barry Humphries
"I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna."
Barry Humphries
"Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves."
Barry Humphries
"I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are."
Barry Humphries
"Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame."
Barry Humphries
"I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur."
Barry Humphries
"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."
Barry Humphries
"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."
Barry Humphries
"Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development."
Barry Humphries
"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."
Barry Humphries
"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."
Barry Humphries
"I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion."
Barry Humphries
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