Barry Humphries Quotes
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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.
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.
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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.
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called.
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
