Top 100 George Michael Quotes
#1. I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him.
Boy George
#2. Before I leave, the Eurotrash girl tells me she likes my gazelleskin wallet. I tell her I would like to tit-fuck her and then maybe cut her arms off, but the music, George Michael singing "Faith," is too loud and she can't hear me. Back upstairs I find Patricia where I left her,
Bret Easton Ellis
#3. But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.
Chelsea Handler
#4. I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.
Pauley Perrette
#5. Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.
Cynthia Payne
#6. You want to see the joy in people, and you want to see the person that always dreamt of being a star, you know? You want to see people having a great time. So Mariah Carey is a huge fan of George Michael.
James Corden
#7. When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.
Pauley Perrette
#8. I once died my hair blonde, and it looked like an orangey-red carrot top. It was the '80s, and I was trying to look like George Michael. At the time, the ladies loved it, and I loved it too!
Nigel Barker
#9. It was a chance meeting with a lady at Mariah Carey's record company who was here in our office, actually. And I pulled her in here to this very office that we're sitting in now, and I played her the clip of me and George Michael singing. And I was like, it's joyful. And that's what people want.
James Corden
#10. George Michael Was Right - You Gotta Have Faith
Jim Bob
#11. Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
Noel Gallagher
#12. I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.
David Cook
#13. Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.
Gilbert Gottfried
#14. You've got to learn to stand your ground and," she flicked her feet in a little Irish stepdance and sang, "you've got to have faith, faith, faith."
My jaw dropped. "You're kidding me, right? You're dancing in the streets and quoting George Michael. I'm about to get eaten alive!
A&E Kirk
#15. It'll be George Michael all over again," Dad mutters darkly to Mum, and I give a sharp intake of breath. That is AGAINST our family code. No one was supposed to mention George Michael ever again. We even turn off "Carless Whisper" whenever it comes on.
Sophie Kinsella
#16. My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.
Graham Norton
#17. As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.
Erin O'Connor
#18. Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.
Brett Ratner
#19. You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.
George Michael
#21. The guy that made me wanna make movies ... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
George A. Romero
#22. All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)
George Michael Sinclair Kennedy
#24. I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
George Michael
#25. I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud. (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)
George Michael
#26. There is no comfort in the truth , pain is all you find.
George Michael
#27. I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
George Michael
#28. Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate ... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis ...
George Will
#29. George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.
Michael Hersch
#30. If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.
George Michael
#32. The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.
George R R Martin
#33. Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
George Michael
#34. George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.
Michael Palin
#35. I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.
George Michael
#37. I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
George Michael
#38. It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?
George Michael
#39. Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
George Michael
#40. I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
George Michael
#41. I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.
George Lopez
#42. Well it looks like the road to heaven
But it feels like the road to hell
When I knew which side my bread was buttered
I took the knife as well
Posing for another picture
Everybody's got to sell
But when you shake your ass
They notice fast
And some mistakes were built to last.
George Michael
#44. I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
George Michael
#45. The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
George Michael
#46. President Obama inherited a one trillion dollar deficit courtesy of George Bush and turned it into a three trillion dollar deficit courtesy of Karl Marx!
Michael Savage
#47. The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
George Michael
#48. With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
George Michael
#49. I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.
George Michael
#51. I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
George Michael
#52. If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.
Michael Palin
#53. I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
George Michael
#54. I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
George Michael
#55. I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.
George Michael
#56. There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.
George Michael
#57. The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.
George Michael
#58. Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.
Michael Oren
#60. I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
George Michael
#61. I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
George Michael
#62. The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.
George Michael
#63. I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.
George Michael
#64. (George Clooney has made it very clear that he never wants to get married again, but his girlfriends keep thinking he's going to change his mind. He's not going to.) And
Michael Fiore
#65. If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.
George Michael
#66. Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
George Michael
#67. My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.
George Michael
#68. I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?
George Michael
#69. People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
George Michael
#70. I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
George Michael
#71. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).
Michael Moore
#72. You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.
Michael Moore
#73. Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.
George Michael
#74. There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
George Michael
#75. My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
George Michael
#76. I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
George Michael
#78. He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.
Michael Feinstein
#79. It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.
Michael Spence
#80. I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.
George Michael
#81. I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants
Michael Moore
#82. I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.
George Michael
#83. For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.
George Michael
#84. Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.
George Michael
#85. Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
Hal Sparks
#86. P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
Michael Moorcock
#88. Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.
George Michael
#89. Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.
George Michael
#90. All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.
George Michael
#91. Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.
George Michael
#92. I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.
Michael Keaton
#93. I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
George Michael
#96. Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me
George Michael
#97. It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
George Michael
#98. I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.
George Michael
#99. Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
George Michael
#100. Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe
George Michael
