Quotes by Tim Minchin - Page 3

I played piano for cabaret stars and stuff and then eventually moved from my hometown of Perth in Western Australia to Melbourne, and somewhere in there, I decided to book myself a room and do a cabaret show of my own material.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Cabaret
Decided
Hometown
Melbourne
Moved
Stars
Western
Somewhere
Material
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There's a lot of great, talented, passionate musical theatre practitioners and directors here. But it's very hard to suddenly start building great musicals in a town like Sydney where there hasn't been any great musicals built.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Musical Theatre
Sydney
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I was lucky enough to grow up in Western Australia and know that the Australian Outback is vast and spell-binding and heart-stoppingly beautiful, and the characters that inhabit it are unique and hilarious and tough and cheeky.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Hilarious
Australian
Cheeky
Vast
Inhabit
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For whatever reason, luck and word of mouth - my comedy career couldn't have started better. I went to Edinburgh, selling out this 300-seater just because I got the right place, right time, right venue, right buzz, right reviews early on.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Buzz
Edinburgh
Luck
Reviews
Right Place
Selling
Mouth
Venue
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I've always been aware that probably writing songs - stupid songs or, at least, theatrical songs - is, I dunno, I certainly don't think about that, about my persona on stage. In fact, I work really hard not to address it too much in my head.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Persona
Theatrical
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Given that everyone's got a voice, it's the age of the democratisation of information through digital technology. That means women can rise up, and people of colour can rise up, and these stories are much more present to us. And that's great.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Colour
Digital Technology
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I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn't fit into a particular box, and I wasn't a trained musician or performer, but history has perhaps proven that perhaps I have something to give.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Proven
Rejected
Agent
Performer
Trained
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My most visceral childhood memory is getting home from hockey. Much of our family time revolved around hockey, and it rains a lot in Perth, and we'd get home tired and wet in our tracksuits, and the smell I'd hold in my nose is of mother's vegetable soup.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Hockey
Smell
Soup
Visceral
Wet
Family Time Home
Nose
Rains
Vegetable
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The Internet now is completely full of memes, and it's interesting, the idea that instead of having a sign crotched on your door or a magnet on your fridge saying whatever cliches and bon mots, pictures laid out with some text are passed around and move really fast.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Interesting
Internet
Magnet
Memes
Cliches
Full
Door
Fast
Fridge
Instead
Laid
Move
Pictures
Passed
Saying
Sign
Text
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In particular, Stewart Lee and Tony Law, people who could have been really critical, were really supportive of me, and I'll never forget that, and I want to be that person, so you have to work really hard to repress your natural jealousies and be one of those people.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Critical
Natural
Never Forget
Particular
Supportive
Work Your Me
Lee
Repress
Tony
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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Giving
Love Is
Passion
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I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Two-Year
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I'm not supporting nor not supporting TV casting shows - there is no doubt they are created for financial reasons - but I don't have a problem with wanting to sell tickets, and if you want to do an arena version of a rock musical, you have to sell a lot of tickets to justify the cast.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Arena
Casting
Justify
No Doubt
Tickets
Supporting
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I just do what I gotta do and try to show people I can write some funny lyrics and play piano, and hopefully that'll make them dig further. I really believe in my form. That's why I haven't done a lot of telly, and I'm not a regular on any panel shows, and I'm not in a sitcom or all those things.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Sitcom
Dig
Funny Believe People
Panel
Show People
Telly
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At its essence, 'Groundhog Day' is an existential journey of an unhappy, judgmental, slightly narcissistic, misogynistic, dissatisfied, aspirational, entitled, privileged male who has to learn to be the opposite of all those things to find happiness - to learn that learning is important and that you don't get to control everything.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Happiness
Journey
Dissatisfied
Entitled
Essence
Existential
Judgmental
Privileged
Unhappy
Opposite
Male
Find
Learn
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Believe
Race
Spiritual
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Bats
Ideas
Thinking
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
Tim Minchin / Comedian
Art
Beautiful
Stupid
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