Quotes from Tim Minchin

I often get references to 'slight' or whatever, and my weight's been a thing for me my whole life. I have to really, really work. I train six times a week to just be normal and not be fat.

London represents the idea that someone pulled away the set from my life and replaced it with another. 'Here is your new baby. Here is your new life. And now you do comedy.' Without being smug, it's the best fun.

When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of 'Love's Labour's Lost.'

Hollywood seduces a person who's used to making theater, art, and having success on their own terms and then tries to squish them into a box and, eventually, throws the box out.

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.

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

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

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.

My whole mission is to have a long, interesting career, not a short spiky one.

I have written a lot of musical theatre over my life - two Olivier Award-winning musicals - and I still don't think I'm ready to be the boss in the room.

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

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.

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.

Just because you're right-wing shouldn't mean you don't believe climate science data. They're unrelated.

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

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.

I see myself as an utterly unchanged Perth dude who likes sport as much as I like music and who just likes my family.

I'm as strict as my parents - I have high expectations, too. I'd never ask the kids to do something outside their capabilities, but I'll encourage them not to be lazy and to try hard.

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.