51 Tim Minchin Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tim Minchin

Australian Comedian

Born: Oct 7, 1975

Comedy Me People Think Work You

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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

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It was - I'm very didactic in my lyrics, but I've always been drawn to mock my own emotions, and so I write this very lyric-heavy stuff, which suits theater and comedy much more than it suits pop. Tim Minchin

I had written six scores by the time I was 20, and I'd never been paid a dollar. Tim Minchin

Time Never Had Written Dollar Been Scores Six Paid By The Time

In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it's poison. It used to be appropriate, but it's not anymore, and we haven't learned that lesson yet. Tim Minchin

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Trouble is, I'm not a real ginger. I'm just a ginger-bearded, pale-skinned, strawberry blond. Tim Minchin

Trouble Ginger Real Blond Just

That's the incredible thing about 'Matilda': it keeps manifesting itself in different ways. Tim Minchin

Incredible Ways About Itself Different Manifesting Different Ways Keeps Thing

I'm a comedian because I want people to like me. That's really why all comedians are comedians. Tim Minchin

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I just want people to hold themselves to account about what they think more, because I strongly believe that the way to live a moral life is to not allow yourself to have beliefs which are easy but which don't make sense. Tim Minchin

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human. Tim Minchin

Comedy is often a short career because you get to a point where you are no longer a small thing punching up at targets; you are the big thing, and it's hard to write from that position. Tim Minchin

I never thought I was going to be an actor. Tim Minchin

Thought Never Going Actor

You do get a bit paranoid that you're becoming a sort of narcissist, an artistic solipsist when you're doing stand-up. Tim Minchin

You Bit Paranoid Sort Narcissist Becoming Doing Get Artistic

I had lunch with Andrew Lloyd Webber at the end of 2011 because my musical 'Matilda' is in one of the theatres that he owns in London. Tim Minchin

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I just always thought 'Groundhog Day' was potentially a great idea. Tim Minchin

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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

I wake up in the morning quite excited by the notion that I get to immediately have a meal. That's the thing that gets me out of bed - just the thought of having a poached egg, or even some granola. Tim Minchin

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

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Fight for what is true. What is true is enough. Tim Minchin

Fight Enough True

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

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I've been atheist since I became aware of the term, but my material is not all about religion - not by a long shot - and when I do address the topic, it is to point out where religiosity meets discrimination. Tim Minchin

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