Who's the world going to revolve around now? Tim Minchin More Quotes by Tim Minchin More Quotes From Tim Minchin If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife. Tim Minchin afterlife piano believe Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger. Tim Minchin ginger If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors. Tim Minchin damnation sound people Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS? Tim Minchin this-world enough world There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging. Tim Minchin starving children These days, I'm a hypocritical, philosophical vegetarian. Vegetarianism would be the right choice, but I really, really love meat. Tim Minchin right choice meat love 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 grow tough unique beautiful 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 myself hometown stars book London's my favourite place. I lived in Crouch End for years and come back as much as I possibly can. Tim Minchin end place back london I think there's something fundamentally wrong with thinking that there's a God who looks after you but kills everyone else. There's something, if not immoral, then gross, about it. Tim Minchin think you god thinking I'm quite a gregarious, outgoing person. Tim Minchin quite person gregarious outgoing 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 pictures door saying internet 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 day learning journey happiness I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or wedding bands or disco bands or original bands or playing cabaret for Todd McKenney. Tim Minchin playing disco wedding mean I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry. Tim Minchin laugh you cry people 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 i-can funny believe people I want to be here for my family. I want to make stuff in Australia. I want to take what I've learned and contribute it to the industry. I think there's a moral imperative to do so for people like me. Tim Minchin think me family people 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 start great building theatre 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. Tim Minchin my-life think boss life The thing I love about my career is the variety and that people can't predict what I'm going to do next. Tim Minchin predict career love people
