Barry Humphries in 2001
John Barry Humphries, AC, CBE (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist and author.
Quotes
- There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
- My Life as Me: A Memoir (2002)
- Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen* never let any of them live rent-free in his brain.
- My Life as Me: A Memoir
- And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
- My Life as Me: A Memoir (closing line)
About Barry Humphries
- He would have been a handful in any society. He is a misfit and fully conscious of it. The punctilio of his old-world manners, the dandified scrupulosity of his Savile Row suits, are compelled by an unsleeping awareness that he has no more business among ordinary human beings than a Venusian.
- Clive James, 'Approximately in the Vicinity of Barry Humphries'
External links
Encyclopedic article on Barry Humphries on Wikipedia
Media related to Barry Humphries on Wikimedia Commons
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