Words matter. These are the best Barry Humphries Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.
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.
I am writing a book called ‘The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.’ It’s of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes – those big long cranes used on construction sites.
I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I’m also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There’s also Save the Funnel-web – they’re dying out.
I say things other people wish they could say. I don’t pick on people – I empower them.
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.
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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.
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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!
I feel like I’ve cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I’ve had a successful life. I feel guilty that I’ve never done a day’s work in my life!
When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
There’s to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I’m not sure who’s going to play me. I haven’t got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism – aren’t they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I’m a little bit politically incorrect.
