Barry Humphries quote: "Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others."

In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city p...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside th...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still m...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them e...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise ...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadi...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offere...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm al...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child,...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a l...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

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

I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as u...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. Th...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
BARRY HUMPHRIES

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one'...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

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

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

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

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

Dame Edna: The Royal Tour
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Just get up there and neigh!
BARRY HUMPHRIES

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mo...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I&#...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big followi...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for G...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credi...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

He's not anyone I've played before,
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

From the minute I first saw an episode of Kath and Kim I thought it was genius, so to be invited to ...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent d...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

A lot of people, for reasons I can't understand, are puzzled to learn I drive. In fact I have been d...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

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

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because ...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of brea...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, ...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

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

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulati...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mothe...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church o...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They we...
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Evidently, they're a pretty good football team. They beat Crescent City. They're big on their offens...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

We had our chances. McCoy even had Oats open a couple of times down the middle for touchdowns, but h...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

Our defense was just on the field too long. After a while, you can get worn down, and maybe we did. ...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

Again, we were our own worst enemy. Again, it wasn't a lot of fun. We are just not taking care of th...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

Turnovers have been our nemesis all year and tonight was an example. It is always going to be tough ...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

They're going to line up foot-to-foot and just pound it at you with their big linemen.
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

Our secondary played really well against the pass. They launched a half-dozen balls deep and didn't ...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

Somehow, someway, we've got to eliminate turnovers. We can't beat anyone the way we're beating ourse...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

I thought we played pretty well on defense and ran the ball well. I thought we controlled the line o...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

We had a lot of troubles in the first half. We would give up the ball cheaply, and we'd have a hard ...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES

I also eat fruit instead of drinking juices. That's something I've read up on. I think that ...
KRIS HUMPHRIES

We also need to ensure that the ambitions of our younger generation are nurtured and their skills ho...
CHRIS HUMPHRIES

They unanimously said this is a bad thing and they couldn't see why a city would down-zone it to agr...
DAVID HUMPHRIES

There is a real danger that the competitive disadvantage caused by this measure will frustrate the g...
CHRIS HUMPHRIES

The research shows that our teenagers are full of ambition and really keen to have a career that off...
CHRIS HUMPHRIES

Rick is solid in his entire game, ... He managed his game well and needless to say I would have love...
STAN HUMPHRIES

A pause today is disappointing but understandable, whilst the Bank reassesses the extent of the slow...
CHRIS HUMPHRIES

Nowadays true job satisfaction and happiness is about fulfilling your full potential, tapping into y...
CHRIS HUMPHRIES

We want time to continue to market and sell the property.
DAVID HUMPHRIES

I've never had so much fun in a court of law.
DAVID HUMPHRIES

This case is really about avarice, it's about greed, and it's about human frailty.
FRAN HUMPHRIES

Each case is based on its own merits and facts, but it has been my experience that a change of venue...
FRAN HUMPHRIES

We certainly hope it acts as a deterrent, even if it benefits one case. These cases are so terrible ...
FRAN HUMPHRIES

It's a legislator reaction to a real life problem that we face every day.
FRAN HUMPHRIES

The sense of urgency is rising.
TOM HUMPHRIES

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the d...
BARRY JENKINS

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha...
BARRY WHITE

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain...
BARRY COMMONER

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social i...
BARRY COMMONER

I am about as detailed as a shadow.
LYNDA BARRY

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
DAVE BARRY

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
SAM BARRY

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
SAM BARRY

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
TODD BARRY

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the a...
BARRY UNSWORTH

Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hi...
KEVIN BARRY

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
DAVE BARRY

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
DAVE BARRY

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another pe...
DAVE BARRY

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
DAVE BARRY

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is ...
DAVE BARRY

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
DAVE BARRY

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to a...
DAVE BARRY

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
DAVE BARRY

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
DAVE BARRY

I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
LYNDA BARRY

I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ...
BARRY JENKINS

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ...
BARRY ZITO

I can count my friends on one hand.
BARRY ZITO

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anythin...
BARRY ZITO

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
BARRY ZITO

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
BARRY ZITO

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them ...
BARRY ZITO

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.
BARRY ZITO

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people...
BARRY ZITO

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
BARRY ZITO

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
BARRY ZITO

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no ...
BARRY ZITO

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he ...
BARRY ZITO

I just write mechanical things.
BARRY ZITO

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
BARRY ZITO

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If i...
BARRY ZITO

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, ...
BARRY ZITO

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works...
BARRY ZITO

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can be...
BARRY ZITO

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. ...
BARRY ZITO

I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the score...
BARRY WILLIAMS

Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
BARRY WILLIAMS

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ...
BARRY WHITE

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE

The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my...
BARRY WHITE

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE

I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
BARRY WATSON

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with bei...
BARRY WATSON

I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man ...
BARRY WATSON

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
BARRY WATSON

Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about ever...
BARRY WATSON

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. ...
BARRY WATSON

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get insi...
BARRY WATSON

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
BARRY TOOK

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at ...
BARRY TOOK

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just ...
BARRY TOOK

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
BARRY SWITZER

I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort l...
BARRY STERNLICHT

There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
BARRY STERNLICHT

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans ...
BARRY STERNLICHT

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
BARRY STERNLICHT

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to ...
BARRY STERNLICHT

You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.
BARRY STERNLICHT

We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.
BARRY STERNLICHT

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company tha...
BARRY STERNLICHT

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportuniti...
BARRY STERNLICHT

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attenti...
BARRY STERNLICHT

Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight pe...
BARRY STERNLICHT

Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hote...
BARRY STERNLICHT

The American dream is still to own your home.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of differe...
BARRY STERNLICHT

It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
BARRY STERNLICHT

Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak...
BARRY STERNLICHT

The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did som...
BARRY STERNLICHT

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionat...
BARRY STERNLICHT

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
BARRY STERNLICHT

Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say a...
BARRY SONNENFELD

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that...
BARRY SONNENFELD

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
BARRY SONNENFELD

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of the...
BARRY SONNENFELD

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big...
BARRY SONNENFELD

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
BARRY SONNENFELD

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out ...
BARRY SONNENFELD

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be consid...
BARRY SONNENFELD

I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a bi...
BARRY SONNENFELD

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
BARRY SONNENFELD

I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actuall...
BARRY SONNENFELD

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an...
BARRY SONNENFELD

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Pa...
BARRY SONNENFELD

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first ...
BARRY SONNENFELD

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
BARRY SONNENFELD

I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE

I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
BARRY SLOANE

I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside'...
BARRY SLOANE

Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitco...
BARRY SILBERT

That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has...
BARRY SILBERT

Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it's not just develop...
BARRY SILBERT

To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able ...
BARRY SILBERT

We are very excited about the use of blockchain, whether it's Bitcoin or not, but we are as enth...
BARRY SILBERT

Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
BARRY SILBERT

You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a moneta...
BARRY SILBERT

Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.

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Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.

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