24 Hour Party People quotes

40 total quotes

Martin Hannett
Multiple Characters
Tony Wilson

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 [First address to camera; after his hang-gliding news report] You're going to see a lot more of that sort of thing in the picture. I don't want to say too much, don't want to spoil it. I'll just say one word: 'Icarus'. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.

View Quote [To Martin Hannett] You can't threaten me, Martin. You're a big man, but you're out of shape. Although you could sit on me.

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 [On learning about Tony's 'contract' with his bands]
Roger Ames: Tony, you're ****ing mad.
Tony Wilson: Well, that is a point of view.

View Quote Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as spirituality.

View Quote Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

View Quote [Tony Wilson has just had a vision of God - who looked exactly like Tony Wilson]
Tony Wilson: It's says so in the Bible, though, doesn't it? 'God made man in His own image'.
Rob Gretton: Yeah - but not a specific man.

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 I'm a minor character in my own story.