Cecil He was elegance, walking arm in arm with a lie.
Curt Wild
6 quotes
Mandy Slade
Toni Collette · 4 quotes
Female Narrator
Janet McTeer · 3 quotes
Arthur Stuart
Christian Bale · 2 quotes
Brian Slade
1 quote
Velvet Goldmine quotes
Page 1 of 2 Cecil Cecil Style always wins out in the end.
Cecil [about Curt]: The doctors guaranteed the treatment would fry the fairy clean out of him. But all it did was make him bonkers everytime he heard electric guitar.
Child on Subway
Yesterday upon a stair, I saw a man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today, How I wish he'd go away.
A real artist creates beautiful things and... puts nothing of his own life into them. Okay?
Is that what you did?
No. No. We set out to change the world and ended up... just changing ourselves.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing... If you don't look at the world.
Childhood, adults always say, is the happiest time in life. But as long as he could remember, Jack Fairy knew better.
For once there was an unknown land, full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.
Lou I want you because you remember.
Opening Text
Although what you are about to see is a work of fiction, it should never the less be played at maximum volume.
Oscar Wilde
I want to be a pop idol.
Trevor
Rock music has always been a reaction against accepted standards. And homosexuality has been going on for centuries. At the moment having a ‘gay' image is the ‘in' thing, just like a few years ago it was trendy to wear a long grey coat with a Led Zeppelin record under your arm.
Young Boy
Put out the torches. Hide the moon. Hide the stars.
Histories like ancient ruins are the fictions of empires. While everything forgotten hangs in dark dreams of the past, ever threatening to return.
Everyone’s into this scene because it’s supposedly the thing to do right now. But you just can’t fake being gay. You know, if you’re gonna claim that you’re gay you’re gonna have to make love in gay style, and most of these kids... just aren’t going to make it. That line, ‘Everybody’s bisexual’, that’s a very popular thing to say right now. Personally, I think it’s meaningless.
He thought he **** was Maxwell Demon in the end – you know? And Maxwell Demon...he thought he was God.