71 Quotes by Barry Humphries


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    I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

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    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.

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

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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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    To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

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