Latest Quentin Crisp Quotes from Interviews

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• I've never not been famous.

  Quentin Crisp

  Source: www.avclub.com

• In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

  Quentin Crisp

  New York, People, Bars

  Source: www.avclub.com

• What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Mistake, Knives

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• I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.

  Quentin Crisp

  War, Book, World

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• You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

  Quentin Crisp

  Doors, Persons, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mistake, People, Great Mistakes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

  Quentin Crisp

  World, Feminine, Young

  Source: www.avclub.com

• As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of this?" And the actor never says, "Well, last week I was a murderer, and the week before that I was a child molester, and the week before that I was a lunatic. But now I'm a homosexual."

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Thinking, Wife

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Trying, Faces, Dodge

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Girl, Drama, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Understood, Know How

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Way, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  America, Way, Accepting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Beaten, Cursed

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

  Quentin Crisp

  Tragedy, Remember, Tragic

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• I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Tragic, Demeanor

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Differences, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Stereotype

  Source: www.avclub.com

• All America is much the same.

  Quentin Crisp

  America

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

  Quentin Crisp

  Speak, Wave, Photograph

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expression, Television, May

  Source: www.avclub.com

• In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

  Quentin Crisp

  Doors, People, Manhattan

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.

  Quentin Crisp

  Batteries, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

  Quentin Crisp

  Would Be, England, Constitution

  Source: www.avclub.com

• America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

  Quentin Crisp

  Believe, America, Don't Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com