The Naked Civil Servant (1975 TV Movie)

John Hurt: Quentin Crisp

Quotes 

• Young Queer-baiter : See that copper over there? If you don't give us a quid each, right? I'm gonna tell him you been fiddling with these two.

  Quentin Crisp : I defy you to do your worst. It can hardly be my worst. Mine has already and often happened to me. You cannot touch me now. I am one of the "stately homos of England".

• Quentin Crisp : Any film, even the worst, is better than real life.

• [first lines] 

  Mr. Crisp : Do you intend to spend your entire life admiring yourself?

  Quentin Crisp : If I possibly can.

• Quentin Crisp : Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

• Quentin Crisp : [His friend has become a nun]  How is it there?

  Art Student : Every moment has been agony, but I couldn't have done otherwise.

  Quentin Crisp : Story of our lives.

• Quentin Crisp : Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

• [last lines] 

  Quentin Crisp : Never looking at anyone unless they demand I look. Never speaking to anyone unless spoken to.

• Quentin Crisp : When the war was declared, I bought two pounds of henna.

• 1st Policeman : Are you pansy?

  Quentin Crisp : I don't know any other meaning of this word apart from being a flower!

• Quentin Crisp : Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

• Quentin Crisp : Women speak a language which I don't understand.