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Barry Humphries Quotes

Australian - Entertainer | February 17, 1934 -

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

Barry Humphries

Mother Live Night Party Australia

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

Barry Humphries

Life My Life Stage Suffer Worse

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

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Direction Wrong Unfortunately

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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Parents Army More Hated Even Fact

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

Barry Humphries

Business School World Destiny Most

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

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Beautiful Man Sex Place Take Most

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

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People Me Long Guests Forgotten

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

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People Wish Say Empower Things Pick

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

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Life Work Good Day Theatre My Life

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.

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Mother Character Help You Years See

I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.

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Great Doing You Bad Say Nervous

What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

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Funny Character I Am Think Thought

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