I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.
I never say 'No' to anything. - Quentin Crisp
I never say 'No' to anything.
- Quentin Crisp
Europeans are quarrelsome. - Quentin Crisp
Europeans are quarrelsome.
I've never not been famous. - Quentin Crisp
I've never not been famous.
Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what… - Quentin Crisp
Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what…
I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed. - Quentin Crisp
I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. - Quentin Crisp
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Happiness is the only thing I understand. - Quentin Crisp
Happiness is the only thing I understand.
You don't have to do anything. - Quentin Crisp
You don't have to do anything.
Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time. - Quentin Crisp
Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.
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