Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBEis an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer, and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionVoice Actor
Date of Birth17 February 1934
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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.
I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
I love Australia - I think.
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.