A biography for Tim Minchinhasn’t been written yet.
“If there was Twitter when I wrote some of my early stuff, there'd be no 'Matilda.'”
“Just because you're right-wing shouldn't mean you don't believe climate science data. They're unrelated.”
“Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.”
“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 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.”
“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've spent years on stage adjusting the timing of a line to infinitesimal degrees.”
“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.”
“I saw 'The Wild Duck' at the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, and it was one of the best pieces of theatre I'd ever seen.”
“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.”
“Generally, there's a correlation between good work and good reviews. In the very odd, very rare case that they say it's terrible, but actually you're a genius who is ahead of your time, you are going to just have to suffer.”
“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.”
“When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.”
“The point of privilege and the notion of mansplaining is that sometimes I definitely feel like I should shut up. That's it functioning. That's the notion of privilege functioning.”
“I'm not a good philanthropist yet; I'm not as good as I'd like to be... I believe very hard in luck. It's all chance; therefore, any privilege you have is chaos.”
“These days, I'm a hypocritical, philosophical vegetarian. Vegetarianism would be the right choice, but I really, really love meat.”
“You do get a bit paranoid that you're becoming a sort of narcissist, an artistic solipsist when you're doing stand-up.”
“Because I'm on my own on stage and wear bare feet and look like a pixie, people always think I'm little.”
“That's the incredible thing about 'Matilda': it keeps manifesting itself in different ways.”
“When you become successful, half the population puts you on a pedestal, and half the population treats you with less respect than you would have got if you were collecting their bins.”