Quentin Crisp

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1908 age 0

   Born

2. 1985 age 77

   CreditThe Bride

3. 1992 age 84

   CreditOrlando

4. 1993 age 85

   CreditPhiladelphia

5. 1995 age 87

   CreditThe Celluloid Closet

6. 1997 age 89

   CreditLittle Red Riding Hood

7. 1999 age 90

   Died

• THTom Hanks2 titles
• RNRon Nyswaner2 titles
• ABAntonio Banderas2 titles
• DBDavid Brisbin1 title
• BZBilly Zane1 title
• JSJoe Spinell1 title
• SBSteve Buscemi1 title
• KSKeith Szarabajka1 title
• WSWilliam Sadler1 title
• CBClancy Brown1 title

• 
  Photo:GrahamColmCC BY-SA 3.0
• 
  Photo:Ross B. LewisCC BY-SA 4.0

• I suppose when I was a child, when I lived almost entirely in a dream world, I suppose I thought of myself as a woman, but later on you realise you have to live in the real world and that you are not.<br />You are only in some senses effeminate or feminine, and you must make this compromise, you must learn to live in a world where statistically you are a man, whatever you may think about yourself.<br />I didn't want to become anything. Once I'd accepted the world, all I wanted was that the world should understand what kind of person I was.

  Quentin Crisp, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

  Quentin Crisp, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.

  Quentin Crisp, CC BY-SA 4.0

• A pinch of notoriety will do.

  Quentin Crisp, CC BY-SA 4.0

• At the age of ninety, it has finally been explained to me that I am not really homosexual, I'm transgender. I now accept that.<br />I no longer see myself as homosexual, though it is a word I have used to describe myself and which others have understandably used to describe me. I don't actually see myself as a man though, of course, I know I'm not physically a woman.<br />The only thing in my life I have wanted and didn't get was to be a woman. [...]<br />I don't dress like a woman ... I think my body is too like a man's body to have lived as a woman with any kind of success.<br />I refer to myself as homosexual without thinking because of how I have lived my life.

  Quentin Crisp, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Wit is the voice of style. One might almost define an aphorism as an ugly truth gracefully phrased, or say that wit is any comment on the human condition made in a way that is memorable. Brevity is not the soul of wit. Truth is its soul and brevity its body, but since by now all truths are foregone, it can only be the form that we give them that is our individual contribution. Those who sink to the mere trading in facts insult their hearers. We can be offered only two kinds of information — what we already know, which is boring, and what we do not, which is humiliating.

  Quentin Crisp, CC BY-SA 4.0