Tim Minchin Quotes

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

This is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first review.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

Aren't all people flawed?

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

Top players or experienced players make mistakes because we are human beings, we are people.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Nobody is completely perfect.

Human nature is weak.

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.