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… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
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,… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
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! — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
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,… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
