Andrew Denton Quotes

Australia, Comedian
May 4, 1960

Andrew Christopher Denton (born 4 May 1960) is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope and the ABC game show Randling. He is known for his comedy and interviewing technique. He is also responsible for introducing the troupe of The Chaser to Australian audiences.

Also known as Television Producer, Television Presenter

I've become a much more serious young insect.

Andrew Denton
- Serious
A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

Andrew Denton
- Believe

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

Andrew Denton
- People
- Country
- Faith
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Andrew Denton
- Work
- Comedy
The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

Andrew Denton
- World
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

Andrew Denton
- Music
- Art
- May
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Andrew Denton
- People
- Faith
- Hate
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Andrew Denton
- Cold
- Stress

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Andrew Denton