Barry Humphries Quotes

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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

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

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The only people really keeping the spirit of irony alive in Australia are taxi-drivers and homosexuals.

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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

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The difficulty about a theatre job is that it interferes with party-going.

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My work is really addressed to a provincial English audience, and whether we like it or not, and whatever American affectations we may entertain here in Australia, we are really provincial English society. Our humour touches the same nerve.

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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.

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If there were any of Australia's original inhabitants living in Melbourne they were kept well out of the way of nice people; unless, of course, they could sing.

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There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics.

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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.

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Oh, I was down by Manly Pier
Drinking tubes of ice-cold beer
With a bucket full of prawns upon me knee.
But when I'd swallowed the last prawn
I had a technicolour yawn
And I chundered in the old Pacific sea.

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Feminist: a woman, usually ill-favoured... in whom the film-making instinct has displaced the maternal.

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Dame Edna to Judy Steel:
Tell me the history of that frock, Judy. It's obviously an old favourite. You were wise to remove the curtain rings.

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