Quite Quotes

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.

I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you.

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.