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

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Casualties Cook Expected Fame Friends Last Me Moore People Peter Sense Were Would

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

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Benevolent Decided Neglect Parenting Secret The Secret Of

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

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Amateur Because Facebook Fundamentally Looked Never Page Website

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I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: About Bit Boring Go Hate Incorrect Little Little Bit People Politically Politically Incorrect Possible Professionalism Theater Try

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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Am Amazing Australia Big Boards Book Construction Films History Hundred Invented Know Long Objects Sites Some The History Of Them Things Those Used Writing You I Am

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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

Topics: Australian Doctor Guru Host Housewife Icon Now Ordinary Spin Style Turned

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I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Added Attach By The Time Elbows Eyes Face Finished Fish Fruit Lemon Like Look Morning Much Night Pillow Pretty Put Salad Squeezed Time Two Whole

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Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Actress Brow Call Desperate Emotion Faces Frogs Gone Housewives Just Like Line Lips Look Mouths Muffin Them Those Women

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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Created Creation Credit Decide Disappear Factory Give Her Like Little Look Madonna Marilyn Marilyn Monroe Monroe Now Perhaps Poor Quietly Seems She Should Think Unable Wants Whether I Think

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When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Because Been Comedian Correctness Laugh Laughing Me Normally Particular People Political Political Correctness Relief Spoken Strangled Truth Way Would

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Entertainer

Born: February 17th, 1934

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