Barry Humphries Quotes

Barry Humphries — Australian Entertainer born on February 17, 1934,

John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. Humphries is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time … the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin"... (wikipedia)

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

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

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.