Mark Indelicato Quotes

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.

My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

I'm not a fan of underdressing, I think it's better to be overdressed than underdressed.

My father sort of relented. He saw Rajiv, and he said he is a good man. But his more worried about his daughter, because I was going far to a place completely different... with completely different customs. He felt that perhaps I would not be able to accustom to these new ways.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

There was a fairly big difference between Detroit and Beverly Hills. I remember this. Detroit actually was a prosperous bustling city when we moved here in 1941. But the first day in Detroit, you always wore a shirt and a tie to school. And I wore a shirt and a tie to Beverly Hills High School, and a girl came up to me and said, "Where are you from?" And I said, "Detroit." And she said, "And you won't be wearing a tie tomorrow, will you?" And I said, "You're absolutely correct." So that was my first adjustment to a slightly more casual environment.

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China and I go worship there I will understand and I'll be willing to give up a lot of my culture because I'm in somebody else's homeland. So I'm going to have to act German or Chinese, whatever that might mean.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

I took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I was really trying to toe the line. I think that if I had spoken exactly the way that people spoke back then, it probably would have alienated people.

I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.

This dress code should be mandatory for most events.

It reminds me how funny living in LA can be; You go to a friend's barbecue and you leave the face of Victoria Beckham's look book.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

Ladies first." "Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else.