71 Quotes by Barry Humphries

I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.

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.

I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.

I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

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.

People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.