Quentin Crisp Quotes

Oh, I get a little tired now and then, but knowing my lifestyle, that's only natural.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories. When I'm not, then I really have to learn how to live life and make use of the time properly. I'm not always great at making those decisions, but when it comes to working, my time is totally taken up. I have no option except to get up early in the morning and to work on that movie and to finish. But I take that with a pinch of salt, because I also love my time off.

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

I'm a workaholic because I love to play, if that makes sense.

Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.

I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.

I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

I think I'll be working a lot less as I get older

Resentment creates stress.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.