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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.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Acting Angeles Business Close Dame Enough Friend Friends Her Interested Joan Larry Los Los Angeles Mostly Not Interested Number Oddly Others Passed Petroleum Rivers Sadly She Show Show Business Some Used World

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I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Able Actor Anything Chair Child Duty Man Myself Old Old Man Think Tree Woman I Think

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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: About Australian Conversation Driver Dublin First Had Interesting Most Played Production Put Taxi Waiting 1950S

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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Also Awareness Because Charity Charity Work Dying Friends Interested Many My Own Out Own People Prostate Save Started Work Working

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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: About Australian Because Become Bread Call Cultural Dare Diet Discuss Equivalent Fine Manner Mean Mention Milk Never Old People Realistic Spade Staple Talk Things Think Thought Vein Would I Think

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

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Approaching Direction Unfortunately Wrong Wrong Direction

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I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn't very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Asked Bachelor Beautiful Big Boy Clothes Design Designed Dresses Even Extreme Following Gaga He Her Identify Keen Kenny Lady Lady Gaga Likes Over Say Shall Someone Son Very Well Women World

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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Also Away Been Course Dinner Frankly He Hugh Husband Larry Like Little Long Long Time Long Time Ago Lot Me More Particular Passed People Recently Taken Things Though Time Too Years Years Ago Young

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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Auditorium Because Bed Character Did Experiences Feeling Flat Had His Key Looking Lost Monologue Night Once Peculiar Sandy Sleep Stage Stay Stone Strangest Sydney Up Very Wake Wake Up Which

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

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Because Either Feel History Interested Kids Made Really Recent Sorry Us Who

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Entertainer

Born: February 17th, 1934

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