Barry Humphries Quotes

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

  Barry Humphries

  Memorable, Humor, Laughing

  61 Copy quote

• Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Country, Humor

  27 Copy quote

• 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

  Funny, Friendship, Mom

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• The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

  Barry Humphries

  Matter, Truth Is

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• 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

  18 Copy quote

• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  Barry Humphries

  Country, Thinking, Sheep

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  25 Copy quote

• I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Laughing, Priceless

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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.

  Barry Humphries

  Fun, Together, Needs

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• I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

  Barry Humphries

  Athletic

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  Source: www.npr.org

  10 Copy quote

• He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

  Barry Humphries

  Luck, World, Well Known

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• 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

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  Barry Humphries

  Children, Army, Parent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Humphries

  Thinking, People, Comedian

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• Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

  Barry Humphries

  Struggle, Years, Thick

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• If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

  Barry Humphries

  Laughing, Missing, May

  8 Copy quote

• If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

  Barry Humphries

  Giving Up, Might, Satire

  7 Copy quote

• Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

  Barry Humphries

  Nature, Pearls, Harbors

  8 Copy quote

• The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

  Barry Humphries

  Past, Best Place, Places To Live

  5 Copy quote

• Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

  Barry Humphries

  Sports, Inspirational Sports, Pursuit

  8 Copy quote

• I love Australia - I think.

  Barry Humphries

  Thinking, Australia

  9 Copy quote

• Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

  Barry Humphries

  Beautiful, Sex, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

• I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.

  Barry Humphries

  Men, Hair, Body

  57 Copy quote

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