Barry Humphries Quotes


My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.


Citations

Everage, Dame Edna. Interview. The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax Media, 2012.

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Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries
  • Born: February 17, 1934
  • Nationality: Australian
  • Profession: Comedian, Actor, Satirist, Artist, Author

John Barry Humphries AO CBE is 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 most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin".