Memorable Quotes - Page 35

One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage.

From a performance standpoint, it just gives [actors] so much - I had such a great cast [ in Valley of Violence] - and it gives them the ability to go wild with it and to have performances that are memorable.

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.

I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.