The Naked Civil Servant (1975 TV Movie)
John Hurt: Quentin Crisp
Quotes
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Young Queer-baiter : See that copper over there? If you don't give us a quid each, right? I'm gonna tell him you been fiddling with these two.
Quentin Crisp : I defy you to do your worst. It can hardly be my worst. Mine has already and often happened to me. You cannot touch me now. I am one of the "stately homos of England".
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Quentin Crisp : Any film, even the worst, is better than real life.
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[first lines]
Mr. Crisp : Do you intend to spend your entire life admiring yourself?
Quentin Crisp : If I possibly can.
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Quentin Crisp : Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
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Quentin Crisp : [His friend has become a nun] How is it there?
Art Student : Every moment has been agony, but I couldn't have done otherwise.
Quentin Crisp : Story of our lives.
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Quentin Crisp : Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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[last lines]
Quentin Crisp : Never looking at anyone unless they demand I look. Never speaking to anyone unless spoken to.
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Quentin Crisp : When the war was declared, I bought two pounds of henna.
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1st Policeman : Are you pansy?
Quentin Crisp : I don't know any other meaning of this word apart from being a flower!
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Quentin Crisp : Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Quentin Crisp : Women speak a language which I don't understand.