Quentin Crisp Quotes
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
Quotes to Explore
-
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
I open the doors for everybody all the time.
-
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
-
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
-
I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
-
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
-
I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
-
I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
-
There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
-
I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
-
I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
-
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
-
What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
-
You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
-
The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
-
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
-
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
-
I hated singing, I hated being on stage; I hated being in the Cranberries. I was constantly crying. I was going insane. I wanted to be a shopkeeper, a hairdresser, anything. I was so desperate to have a reality, friends, a regular, boring life. I missed that.
-
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
-
If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking.
-
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
