Barry Humphries Quotes
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
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I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.
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Through the years we had a bunch of large range fires that would start in the county. This was about the only one that actually came into town.
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Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
