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

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Beauty Begins Glamour Personality Regime Within

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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 comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Asia City Comedy Comparatively Created English Far Female Few Figure Hometown Large Melbourne Portrait Provincial Related Respects She Some Southeast Southeast Asia Theatrical Vaudeville Which World

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

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Correctness Darling Expressing Me Means New Nothing Ourselves Political Political Correctness Preventing Puritanism Us

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

~Barry Humphries

Topics: All Night Australia Dancing Going Like Live Mother Night Party Permanently Rather

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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Ability Am Because Born Gift Laugh Lucky Might Misfortunes Old-Fashioned Others Priceless Think Woman I Think I Am I Was Born

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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, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: About Age Cate Blanchett Exclusive Film Give Going Got Kate Life Me Meryl Meryl Streep Middle Middle Age My Life Now Offered Old Old Age Part Perhaps Play Playing Sure Wanted I Can

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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Box Box Office Celestial Died Dying Gates Got Know Life Lot My Life Nearer Office Outside People Point Queue Realise Somewhere

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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Australia Church Imagine Me Oh Really Religion Turn Want You

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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Army Even Fact Hated More Parents Pleased Somehow Them Very Were

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

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Country Human Million New New Zealand Sheep Think Thirty Thousand Three Whom Zealand

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Entertainer

Born: February 17th, 1934

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