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Barry Humphries Quotes

I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

Barry Humphries

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: australian
Birth: February 17, 1934

Topics

Waiting Interesting Conversation Taxi

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.

John Amery

World Principles First Answer Call

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

Jenny McCarthy

Women Diet Look Want Up Tone

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

Jenna Bush

Education Women Hope Children Best

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Andre Gide

Everyone Orphan

My favorite super hero has always been Spiderman.

Max Charles

Hero Always Favorite Been Super

My aspiration isn't to be famous; it's to design clothes. If that gets me attention at the end of the day, cool.

Sofia Richie

Day Me Cool End Of The Day End

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Ronald Reagan

Money Fat Why Understand Never Cat

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Miguel

Music Black Cultures Black Music

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

Joseph Brodsky

Good Style Speed Always Precision

What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

Jonathan Galassi

Always Almost Most Attached Writers

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Chris Squire

You Way Sound Things Different Mine

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

Brian Eno

Free Want Jazz Because Muscles Just