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24 Hour Party People

24 Hour Party People quotes

40 total quotes

Martin Hannett
Multiple Characters
Tony Wilson




View Quote [After a stoned Martin Hannett tries to set fire to him] I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.
View Quote Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the latest craze sweeping the Pennines. I've got to be honest with you... right now I'd rather be SWEEPING the Pennines.
View Quote [after Shaun Ryder fires a gun in his general direction] You want to be careful with that, Shaun. You could take somebody's eye out.
View Quote Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
View Quote [Whilst hosting 'Wheel of Fortune'] Welcome to the Wheel of Fortune. There it is, the wheel that throughout the centuries has been used as a symbol for the vicissitudes of life. Boethius himself in his great work 'The Consolation of Philosophy' compares history to a great wheel, hoisting us up, then dropping us down again. "Inconsistency is my very essence" -says the wheel- "Raise yourself up on my spokes if you wish, but don't complain when you plunge back down" Now spin the wheel.
View Quote [When caught receiving an act of oral sex from a prostitute by his wife Lindsay] It's not what it looks like, love!
View Quote [After Lindsay storms off when catching him with the prostitute; to Lindsay] I love you! [To the prostitute] Don't stop.
View Quote [When catching Lindsay having sex with another man out of spite] I just got a blowjob. That's full penetration.
View Quote [On Joy Division's drumming] There was nothing wrong with the drumming as such. It's just people have been playing like that for the past 20,000 years and quite frankly I'm ****ing bored with it.
View Quote [On learning how much came out of the music budget to build the Hacienda] Well, this is goodbye. I mean, we obviously have nothing in common. I'm a genius, you're all ****ing wankers. You'll never see me again. You don't deserve to see me again.
View Quote Bez: Can I offer anybody like the best drug experience they ever had?
View Quote God: It's a pity you didn't sign the Smiths, but you were right about Mick Hucknell. His music's rubbish, and he's a ginger.
View Quote God: Tony, you did a good job. Basically you are right: Shaun is the greatest poet since Yeats.
View Quote The Real Howard Devoto: [On his alleged affair with Tony Wilson's wife Lindsay] I definitely don't remember this happening.
View Quote John the Postman: [singing "Louie, Louie" drunkenly] Pogo like a bastard!