I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distract...
QUENTIN BLAKE The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
QUENTIN BLAKE It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
QUENTIN BLAKE I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and o...
QUENTIN BLAKE I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawi...
QUENTIN BLAKE I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only...
QUENTIN BLAKE I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, ...
QUENTIN BLAKE I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.
QUENTIN BLAKE Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
QUENTIN BLAKE I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainment...
QUENTIN BLAKE I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but the...
QUENTIN BLAKE Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don&#...
QUENTIN BLAKE If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
QUENTIN BLAKE I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance...
QUENTIN BLAKE Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
QUENTIN BLAKE I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
QUENTIN BLAKE Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
QUENTIN BLAKE With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
QUENTIN BLAKE I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose i...
QUENTIN BLAKE Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
QUENTIN BLAKE Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
QUENTIN BLAKE Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled ac...
QUENTIN BLAKE I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphe...
QUENTIN BLAKE As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature...
QUENTIN BLAKE You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
QUENTIN BLAKE For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all ...
QUENTIN BRYCE For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen chan...
QUENTIN CRISP I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Au...
QUENTIN BRYCE Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the wo...
QUENTIN BRYCE The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of...
QUENTIN BRYCE It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet...
QUENTIN BRYCE The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and th...
QUENTIN BRYCE I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be ...
QUENTIN BRYCE Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue...
QUENTIN BRYCE Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don&...
QUENTIN TARANTINO My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the cra...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I steal from every movie ever made.
QUENTIN TARANTINO To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do...
QUENTIN TARANTINO If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINO I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
QUENTIN TARANTINO I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it....
QUENTIN TARANTINO I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies wi...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the fai...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't ev...
QUENTIN TARANTINO A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets he...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I kne...
QUENTIN TARANTINO One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and every...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I'm a historian in my own mind.
QUENTIN TARANTINO I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
QUENTIN TARANTINO The good ideas will survive.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
QUENTIN TARANTINO When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
QUENTIN TARANTINO Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won ...
QUENTIN CRISP Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISP I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum...
QUENTIN CRISP I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolvin...
QUENTIN CRISP You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your...
QUENTIN CRISP Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitt...
QUENTIN CRISP There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any...
QUENTIN CRISP It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnersh...
QUENTIN CRISP If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISP All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formati...
QUENTIN BRYCE One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to t...
QUENTIN BRYCE I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, yo...
QUENTIN BRYCE We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was ...
QUENTIN BRYCE I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in busines...
QUENTIN BRYCE My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;...
QUENTIN BRYCE I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly...
QUENTIN BRYCE I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of we...
QUENTIN BRYCE I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
QUENTIN BRYCE 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my...
QUENTIN TARANTINO The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of ...
QUENTIN CRISP The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa...
QUENTIN CRISP Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
QUENTIN CRISP CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch the...
QUENTIN TARANTINO The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that the...
QUENTIN CRISP Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you unders...
QUENTIN CRISP Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
QUENTIN CRISP Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness t...
QUENTIN CRISP Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity ...
QUENTIN CRISP My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISP The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the ...
QUENTIN CRISP The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appa...
QUENTIN CRISP Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. Ther...
QUENTIN CRISP Manners are love in a cool climate.
QUENTIN CRISP An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
QUENTIN CRISP The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
QUENTIN CRISP If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe...
QUENTIN CRISP However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
QUENTIN CRISP Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its...
QUENTIN CRISP The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if ...
QUENTIN CRISP It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnersh...
QUENTIN CRISP Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
QUENTIN CRISP Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic bui...
QUENTIN CRISP If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe d...
QUENTIN CRISP To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
QUENTIN CRISP A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sit...
QUENTIN CRISP Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry...
QUENTIN CRISP Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem ...
QUENTIN CRISP Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be sa...
QUENTIN CRISP Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who...
QUENTIN CRISP Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many yea...
QUENTIN CRISP This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
QUENTIN CRISP In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs o...
QUENTIN CRISP I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This m...
QUENTIN CRISP When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
QUENTIN CRISP Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
QUENTIN CRISP Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
QUENTIN CRISP Vice is its own reward
QUENTIN CRISP Violence is one of the most fun things to watch
QUENTIN TARANTINO The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if...
QUENTIN CRISP You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it we...
QUENTIN CRISP Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
QUENTIN CRISP If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISP When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
QUENTIN CRISP Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be sa...
QUENTIN CRISP Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
QUENTIN CRISP I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can...
QUENTIN TARANTINO The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of ...
QUENTIN CRISP Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the...
QUENTIN CRISP When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my o...
QUENTIN TARANTINO My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea...
QUENTIN TARANTINO When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
QUENTIN CRISP The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli...
QUENTIN BRYCE The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa...
QUENTIN CRISP In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at....
QUENTIN TARANTINO It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be ...
QUENTIN CRISP I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
QUENTIN CRISP The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey ...
QUENTIN BRYCE Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish...
QUENTIN TARANTINO For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
QUENTIN CRISP Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
QUENTIN CRISP The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
QUENTIN CRISP Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of tw...
QUENTIN CRISP Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed see...
QUENTIN CRISP Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that i...
QUENTIN CRISP The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now so...
QUENTIN CRISP One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
QUENTIN CRISP The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is...
QUENTIN CRISP There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any wor...
QUENTIN CRISP I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned
QUENTIN CRISP Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disast...
QUENTIN CRISP Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
QUENTIN CRISP Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
QUENTIN CRISP Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you underst...
QUENTIN CRISP The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now s...
QUENTIN CRISP Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
QUENTIN CRISP The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy
QUENTIN CRISP Turning a broken process into a “non-negotiable” standard does not a good procedure make.
QUENTIN BRAUN It takes more than talking points and consultative knowhow. What sets apart a legitimate and compete...
QUENTIN BRAUN To me porn is a body-contact sport; it's nice to see, but more fun to play ... I could watch, but pr...
QUENTIN BRAUN Feeling moody? Snap out of it! Have a bowl of raison d'etre, a strong cup of joe, and head to the gy...
QUENTIN BRAUN If it's enjoyable to the body, it's good to the soul
QUENTIN BRAUN The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from h...
QUENTIN CRISP Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
QUENTIN CRISP It's like uncorking the world's most carbonated beverage. What happens when a planet gets decompress...
QUENTIN WILLIAMS When coming to the end of an interview: 'You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of m...
QUENTIN CRISP Let’s face it, in today’s corporate environment it’s the bureaucratic nuts running the corpora...
QUENTIN BRAUN I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every yea...
QUENTIN TARANTINO As two massive objects pass near each other, gravitational forces induce dramatic physical changes -...
QUENTIN WILLIAMS As two massive objects pass near each other, gravitational forces induce dramatic physical changes�...
QUENTIN WILLIAMS Some believe the beautiful, yet infinitesimal gentle flap of a butterfly’s wings can bring about t...
QUENTIN BRAUN Life is only as ordinary as you allow it to be.
QUENTIN BRAUN Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who...
QUENTIN CRISP I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a m...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore wo...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Some asteroids look like small planets, not very disturbed, and at the other end of the spectrum are...
QUENTIN WILLIAMS 'Straight acting’ ... that’s so queer!
QUENTIN BRAUN I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being...
QUENTIN CRISP I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I was very confused over how to vote. It's never been so hard.
BETTINA QUENTIN I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type o...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I came into this world butt naked, and damn it I'm gonna do my best to stay that way!
QUENTIN BRAUN The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.
QUENTIN REYNOLDS I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something. Rather than asking me for my ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I'll be fine for Sunday. I'll be fine for tomorrow.
QUENTIN JAMMER That part that was in the wall, that was the bomb. I wanted a lot of wall time and Wally gave me the...
QUENTIN TARANTINO If there's another level of heaven, that's where I'm at,
QUENTIN TARANTINO I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Kill Bill Vol. I.
QUENTIN TARANTINO I could do it, ... I've actually figured out a way, even though the characters have gotten older, to...
QUENTIN TARANTINO The fact that England has embraced me as one of its own is really cool,
QUENTIN TARANTINO Tell you what. Next time I do a movie, you can drive me to the set.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Ben Affleck, he looked like a little girl!,
QUENTIN TARANTINO [Remember when] he almost made our producer cry?
QUENTIN TARANTINO His movie is called 'Planet Terror,' and mine is called 'Death Proof,' ... Mine is sort of a slasher...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I don't think it's a stretch. I always knew Johnny was a good actor. But also, when you're looking f...
QUENTIN TARANTINO