132 Quotes by Tim Minchin

My whole mission is to have a long, interesting career, not a short spiky one.

I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair. I'm not a very despairing person myself, but I do fear despair and the death of loved ones.

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself.

I just do what I gotta do and try to show people I can write some funny lyrics and play piano, and hopefully that'll make them dig further. I really believe in my form. That's why I haven't done a lot of telly, and I'm not a regular on any panel shows, and I'm not in a sitcom or all those things.

My daughter was two weeks old when I wrote 'White Wine in the Sun.' I can remember just sobbing and having to leave the room.

When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of 'Love's Labour's Lost.'

It's about the audience - if they laugh and clap, you feed off that, and if they don't, you doubt everything you've ever done.

Hollywood seduces a person who's used to making theater, art, and having success on their own terms and then tries to squish them into a box and, eventually, throws the box out.