John Lone Quotes


"I have no prejudice against male or female."
- John Lone
(Related: Prejudice)

"An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself."
- John Lone
"But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something."
- John Lone
(Related: Feeling, Open, Waiting, Woman)

"But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk."
- John Lone
(Related: Artist, Want)

"I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over."
- John Lone
(Related: People, Hope, Film)

"I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother."
- John Lone
(Related: Mother, Father, People, Friend, Parents)

"I'm not involved with the female world."
- John Lone
(Related: World)

"I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity."
- John Lone
(Related: Age, Art, Identity, Sense)

"The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned."
- John Lone
(Related: Trying)

"I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history."
- John Lone
(Related: History, Family)

"I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say."
- John Lone
(Related: People, Obvious)

"I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way."
- John Lone
(Related: Mother, Will)

"I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer."
- John Lone
(Related: Queen)

"If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that."
- John Lone
(Related: Family, Man, Woman)

"So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company."
- John Lone
(Related: Money, Company, Opera)

"The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes."
- John Lone
(Related: Beauty)

"I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity."
- John Lone
(Related: Gender, Sound, Want)

"When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over."
- John Lone
(Related: Friend, Film, Lady)