Barry Humphries
Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author
Lived from: 1934 - 2023
Category: Comedians | Movie | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
Australia
Born: 17 february 1934 Died: 22 april 2023
Quotes 1 till 18 of 18.
-
Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen* never let any of them live rent-free in his brain.
My Life as Me: A Memoir― Barry Humphries -
Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Op Broadway in Dame Edna Back With A Vengeance 2004― Barry Humphries -
And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
My Life as Me: A Memoir― 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 -
I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
― Barry Humphries -
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
― Barry Humphries -
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
― Barry Humphries -
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
More please― Barry Humphries -
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
― Barry Humphries -
Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
― Barry Humphries -
Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.
― Barry Humphries -
People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
― Barry Humphries -
Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
― Barry Humphries -
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
― Barry Humphries -
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
My Life as Me: A Memoir― Barry Humphries -
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.
― Barry Humphries -
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
― Barry Humphries -
What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
― Barry Humphries
All Barry Humphries famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com
