Johnny Weir famous quotes

I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man.
-- Johnny Weir

#Men #Littles #Beard

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
-- Johnny Weir

#Crazy #Tired #Heart

I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.
-- Johnny Weir

#Ice #People #Flying

I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.
-- Johnny Weir

#Hair #Years #Blazers

I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.
-- Johnny Weir

#Athlete #Gay #Thinking

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.
-- Johnny Weir

#Athlete #Games #Olympics

You only live once. Life is a show
-- Johnny Weir

#You Only Live Once #Life Is #Shows

I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.
-- Johnny Weir

#Spokes #Models

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.
-- Johnny Weir

#Ice #Want #Cubes

I drink Vitamin Water nonstop - I should have an IV.
-- Johnny Weir

#Water #Vitamins #Drink

Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.
-- Johnny Weir

#Mother #Important #Finding Someone

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.
-- Johnny Weir

#Athlete #Should

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.
-- Johnny Weir

#Athlete #Artist #Feels

I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular.
-- Johnny Weir

#Thinking #Males #Legs

I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.
-- Johnny Weir

#Ice #Shoes #Too Much

It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way.
-- Johnny Weir

#Strong #Thinking #Play

Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!
-- Johnny Weir

#Men #Glitter #Occasions

Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fall #Ideas #Ice

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
-- Johnny Weir

#Athletic #Skating #Artistic

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'
-- Johnny Weir

#Mom #Mother #Daughter

I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fall #Want #Way

My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, 'Thank you for representing us,' and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that's been amazing.
-- Johnny Weir

#People #Support #My Family

It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make me a stronger person, it doesn't really do anything to enhance my life. It's just something I was born with, the same as green eyes.
-- Johnny Weir

#Inspirational #Eye #Athlete

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.
-- Johnny Weir

#Sports #Art #Issues

It's easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.
-- Johnny Weir

#Spring #Russia #Colorado

In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.
-- Johnny Weir

#Vintage #Skills #Normal

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fashion #Long #Trying

I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.
-- Johnny Weir

#Cooking #Proud #Boxers

I think it is important for young people to see other young people on television doing something positive with their life, making positive changes and growing. I don't think there is enough of that on TV. I mean, we've got 'Jersey Shore,' and I don't know what that teaches young kids.
-- Johnny Weir

#Mean #Kids #Thinking

I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.
-- Johnny Weir

#Basketball #Athlete #Player

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?
-- Johnny Weir

#Drama #Tired #Games

The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.
-- Johnny Weir

#Writing #Community #Behind You

We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’
-- Johnny Weir

#Letting Go #Army #March

If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it.
-- Johnny Weir

#Children #Looks #Gone

I showed myself a lesser version of myself that night, and I’m glad I learned from it.
-- Johnny Weir

#Night #Glad

Every little boy should be so lucky as to turn into me,
-- Johnny Weir

#Boys #Lucky #Littles

That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.
-- Johnny Weir

#Football #Player #Thinking

I’ve held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That’s my fashion stepchild.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fashion #Uggs #Forever

I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community,
-- Johnny Weir

#Russia #Community #Lgbt

Don't bring a prop. It's almost like they were afraid nobody would know who they are.
-- Johnny Weir

#Props

There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.
-- Johnny Weir

#Sleep #Hands #Names

I’m good when I’m alone. I’m comfortable when I’m alone. I can sit and do lots of things all by myself. Sex included.
-- Johnny Weir

#Sex

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.
-- Johnny Weir

#Cheer #Way #Elements

My whole career, I've had an issue with always kind of being an underdog and making a big mistake when it counts and falling and having to climb back up. One moment everything will be peachy and everyone will be saying the nicest things about me and loving me, and the next minute I'm the worst, I'm evil, all these things. It's like a fallen angel.
-- Johnny Weir

#Mistake #Fall #Angel

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.
-- Johnny Weir

#Mom #Athlete #Winning

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fall #Design #Costumes

I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.
-- Johnny Weir

#Style

I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way, the production quality.
-- Johnny Weir

#Stars #Ice #Quality

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.
-- Johnny Weir

#Art #Culture #Want

I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fashion #Eye #Thinking

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fun #Passion #Athlete

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.
-- Johnny Weir

#Soccer #Zebras #Kids

I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.
-- Johnny Weir

#Country #Appreciate #World

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fur #Closets #Peta

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.
-- Johnny Weir

#Winning #Perfect #Robots

Of course I was bullied and of course I was called names - my last name is Weir. That's very, very close to 'weird,' or 'queer' and any of those words. But I've never been anyone to cry over spilled milk or be upset because kids don't like me, or people don't like me... It makes my skin stronger and thicker. And why cry? Your mascara runs.
-- Johnny Weir

#Running #Kids #Names

I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.
-- Johnny Weir

#Warrior #People #Different

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.
-- Johnny Weir

#Strong #Thinking #Fierce

I'm a huge fur fan; it's no secret to anyone anymore.
-- Johnny Weir

#Secret #Fans #Fur

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.
-- Johnny Weir

#Skating #Different #Video

Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'
-- Johnny Weir

#Kings #Mean #Men

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.
-- Johnny Weir

#Girl #Jobs #Men

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.
-- Johnny Weir

#Beautiful #Skating #Costumes

Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.
-- Johnny Weir

#Trying #Tweed #Skating

Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.
-- Johnny Weir

#Thinking #Careers #Creating

Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving - is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don't have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fashion #Eye #Writing

Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.
-- Johnny Weir

#Sex #Believe #Sleep

For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.
-- Johnny Weir

#Football #Fashion #Strong

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.
-- Johnny Weir

#Athlete #Judging #Want

To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fashion #Ice #Ideas

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.
-- Johnny Weir

#Skating #Looks #Elements

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.
-- Johnny Weir

#Art #Trying #Skating

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.
-- Johnny Weir

#Summer #Events #Tunes

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.
-- Johnny Weir

#Boys #Cereal #Special