Quentin Crisp Quotes

I never saw Portsmouth by day.

Quentin Crisp

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• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Losing

• The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • May
  • Fact
  • Director

• If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Smart

• Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Never
  • Mark
  • Restricted

• The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Judge

• God hears a mother's prayer.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • God
  • Mother
  • Prayer

• Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Beginning

• The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Game
  • Team
  • Player

• I make music because I like making music.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Like
  • Making

• My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Acting
  • Impossible
  • Coach

• From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Listen
  • Within
  • Unsaid

• It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Style

• I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Conflict
  • Interested
  • Crisis

• If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Say
  • Felt
  • Did

• We the Chinese nation have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Family
  • Lost
  • Enemy

• I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).

  

  Larry Wall

• In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.

  

  Michael Cohl
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• I've always been a big, bold thinker and a dreamer.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Bold
  • Dreamer

• I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Work
  • Guy

• There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Society

• What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Consider
  • Function
  • Beliefs

• I never saw Portsmouth by day.

  

  Quentin Crisp