Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
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… — 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
