Barry Humphries

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us…

— Barry Humphries

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

— Barry Humphries

I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And…

— Barry Humphries

I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.

— Barry Humphries

I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a…

— Barry Humphries

I love Australia - I think.

— Barry Humphries

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

— Barry Humphries

Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.

— Barry Humphries

Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum.…

— Barry Humphries

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

— Barry Humphries

I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible.…

— Barry Humphries

I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called.

— Barry Humphries

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

I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on…

— Barry Humphries

There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part…

— Barry Humphries

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

— Barry Humphries

Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows,…

— Barry Humphries

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

— Barry Humphries

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

— Barry Humphries

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

— Barry Humphries

I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff…

— Barry Humphries

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties…

— Barry Humphries

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

— Barry Humphries

When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing…

— Barry Humphries

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

— Barry Humphries