Barry Humphries famous quotes

03-30-2025

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
-- Barry Humphries

#Laughing #Missing #Laugh At Yourself
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.
-- Barry Humphries

#Secret #Lasts #Firsts
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.
-- Barry Humphries

#Country #Australia #People
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.
-- Barry Humphries

#Thinking #People #Comedian
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
-- Barry Humphries

#Country #Thinking #Sheep
The 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 Humphries

#Song #Art #Past
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.
-- Barry Humphries

#Husband #Women #Desire
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
-- Barry Humphries

#Beautiful #Sex #Men
He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.
-- Barry Humphries

#Luck #World #Well Known
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
-- Barry Humphries

#Matter #Truth Is
I 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 Humphries

#Art #Past #Thinking
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
-- Barry Humphries

#Mother #Party #Night
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
-- Barry Humphries

#Taken #Fate #Comedian
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
-- Barry Humphries

#Army #Parent #Facts
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
-- Barry Humphries

#School #Destiny #World
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
-- Barry Humphries

#Sports #Inspirational Sports #Pursuit
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
-- Barry Humphries

#Funny #Laughing #Priceless
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
-- Barry Humphries

#Friendship #Mother #Twilight
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
-- Barry Humphries

#Nature #Pearls #Harbors
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
-- Barry Humphries

#Men #Hair #Body

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