Quotes by Barry Humphries - Page 2

The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Art
Past
Song
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Charity
Charity Work
Dying
My Own
Prostate
Interested
Save
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I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Comedian
People
Thinking
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Creation
Credit
Disappear
Poor
Factory
Madonna
Marilyn
Marlene
Monroe
Perhaps
Quietly
Unable
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Dinner
Larry
Long Time Ago
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Courted
Frankly
Hugh
Passed
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I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Elbows
Finished
Fruit
Pillow
Added
Attach
By The Time
Cucumber
Eyes
Lemon
Squeezed
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Amazing
History
Australia
Boards
Book
Construction
Hundred
Long
Objects
Used
Films
Sites
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Asia
Comedy
Female
Hometown
Melbourne
Related
Southeast Asia
Theatrical
Vaudeville
English
Comparatively
Far
Few
Figure
Large
Paradoxically
Portrait
Some
Provincial
Respects
She
Which
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Age
Exclusive
Film
Middle
Old Age
Life Age Me
Life Age Old Age
Sure
Cate Blanchett
Meryl
Meryl Streep
Middle Age
Offered
Perhaps
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I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn't very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Beautiful Clothes
Following
Gaga
Likes
Women Design Beautiful
Extreme
Bachelor
Designed
Identify
Lady
Lady Gaga
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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.'
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Extraordinary
Now And Then
Stage
Talking
Wings
Wish
Outside
Says
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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Peculiar
Sandy
Sydney
Wake Up
Auditorium
Conveniently
Monologue
Shadowy
Stone
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Diet
Australian
Bread
Dare
Fine
Milk
Realistic
Talk
Call
Cultural
Old
Discuss
Equivalent
Manner
Mention
Spade
Staple
Vein
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