“I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent...” — Barry Humphries Quote

“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've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.”

“One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.”

“Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?”

“Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.”

“Every artist thinks his most recent work is his best. If you didn't feel like that, you wouldn't do anything.”