Quentin Crisp interview | Naked Civil Servant | Mavis Catches up with...| 1989

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  • Respected Journalist Mavis Nicholson flies to New York City to speak to Raconteur, Writer and self proclaimed eccentric Quentin Crisp. This is the first time Mavis has spoken to Quentin since she interviewed him in London in 1975
    First shown: 20/12/1989
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Komentáře • 239

  • @champakalimajumder4985
    @champakalimajumder4985 Před rokem +27

    What a self contained, articulate, perspicacious, reflective human being. Only very few of us have the ability to know ourselves so well. Who am I, where am I going, what is my life for?
    I think he had all the answers. I hope he is in a place now where he will be loved eternally.

  • @mernaloy2269
    @mernaloy2269 Před rokem +43

    I just discovered this man and he's fascinating to me. I've always loved eccentric people. They are a balm and a comfort to depressed people like me. How wonderful he is !

  • @BlytheWorld1972
    @BlytheWorld1972 Před 5 lety +108

    this man was very very special

    • @PibrochPonder
      @PibrochPonder Před 3 lety

      Why?

    • @BlytheWorld1972
      @BlytheWorld1972 Před 3 lety +7

      @@PibrochPonder unique a great story teller a survivor a legend to many he even had his one man show were 1000s of people went to see him talk .. that enough for you prick ?

    • @redbike6340
      @redbike6340 Před 3 lety +8

      @@PibrochPonder unsure, could be his unpretentious honesty combined with 60 plus years of being shunned by all. Perhaps you then choose either death or acceptance of your lot??

    • @sarahjones-jf4pr
      @sarahjones-jf4pr Před 3 lety

      @@PibrochPonder OH Please......really??/

    • @PibrochPonder
      @PibrochPonder Před 3 lety

      @@BlytheWorld1972 let’s be clear he was special and popular because he was a contemporary version of the Victorian freak show.

  • @ashkevielashtreathi4669
    @ashkevielashtreathi4669 Před 10 měsíci +8

    Quite a beautiful person and remarkably intelligent. Pity we have now lost him💝

  • @shaunwild8797
    @shaunwild8797 Před 3 lety +62

    Such an interesting and honest soul. I could listen to him for hours.

  • @Chillmax
    @Chillmax Před 4 lety +114

    Mavis Nicholson, one of the best, most understated interviewers ever, a masterclass in what to do & not to do! xx Hope Quent is looking down ;-) xx

    • @eunicelynch3511
      @eunicelynch3511 Před rokem +9

      At the grand age of 86 I remember riding the same bus with Quentwhen I was all of 17 ..it was fasinating everything about his presentation was sooo elegant.his make up hair nails and his sandeld feet ..but best of all was his perfume...no not after shave but PERFUME..if I hadnt been 17 and shy I would loved to have asked him for the name.what an elegant man..yes yes I know he was gay but for me at 17 .........

    • @Chillmax
      @Chillmax Před rokem +4

      @@eunicelynch3511 Lovely memories, I definitely would've asked ;-).

    • @fionntainmacb
      @fionntainmacb Před rokem +4

      yes, so beautiful to listen to her openly flow and joyfully connect with Quentin and vice versa :-)

  • @shandalear3252
    @shandalear3252 Před 3 lety +50

    Just adore him. I used to pass him on the street in NY C. I regret I never spoke to him.

  • @MissPerriwinkle
    @MissPerriwinkle Před 3 lety +75

    we had lunch once, he was mesmerizing...

    • @adrienne5080
      @adrienne5080 Před 3 lety +1

      Cool x

    • @sjwillis1137
      @sjwillis1137 Před 3 lety +3

      Wow. You know like you have your fantasy dinner guests ? Quentin would definately be one of mine .

    • @krishnamurtiism
      @krishnamurtiism Před 3 lety +1

      How I’d loved to sat with him and listened

    • @Valkonnen
      @Valkonnen Před 3 lety +1

      @Grey _ Often, when things are beyond what your limited experiences have been, you deny them out ignorance. Someday you'll find out that the very reason why you have lead a limited existence is the attitude that you just displayed. It will probably be much too late when you DO find out. I have worked and lived in NYC for over 35 years of my life and worked in the film industry. The most famous people that I have met and talked to have been outside of the Movie business on the streets of NYC, just by chance. Whether it's Liv Tyler buying a magazine at a newsstand or Dustin Hoffman eating a bagel in front of the shop with his son. But see, a limited brain like yours will never know something like that and you'll live your whole life in a stagnant bubble. I'm sorry for you.

    • @bonnie3447
      @bonnie3447 Před 3 lety +3

      Wow lucky you. That's awesome.

  • @scarfhs1
    @scarfhs1 Před 3 lety +32

    It is such a joy to see him being happy.

  • @michaelexactly5741
    @michaelexactly5741 Před 4 lety +45

    What a amazing Enlightened soul...

    • @Saraaa2538
      @Saraaa2538 Před 4 lety

      In English we say: what An amazing enlightened (NOT Enlightened) soul!

    • @michaelexactly5741
      @michaelexactly5741 Před 4 lety +5

      @@Saraaa2538 thank you for Enlightening me 😱

  • @ransomcoates546
    @ransomcoates546 Před 4 lety +136

    His attitudes would be anathema to the contemporary gay community. But he was extremely intelligent, and spoke a lot of truth people today don’t want to hear.

    • @_Sakidora_
      @_Sakidora_ Před 3 lety +21

      He was always something of an outsider and contrarian and rarely chimed in with the general consensus. There's always been prejudice against effeminate men in the gay community and this is probably even stronger now than before.

    • @knockshinnoch1950
      @knockshinnoch1950 Před 3 lety +13

      He relished being an outsider. Quentin was shaped by his Edwardian upbringing. He railed against that staid conformity yet as time passed he remained tethered to that view of society and became trapped in that past- never truly belonging to any age- a curiosity

    • @someonesomeone25
      @someonesomeone25 Před 3 lety +28

      @@_Sakidora_ Sadly true. My limited experience of the lgbt community is that they're just as filled with bigotry and prejudice as everyone else. There's even hierarchies within them, with groups looking down on other groups. Very disappointing.

    • @Poetic_Justice1962
      @Poetic_Justice1962 Před rokem +4

      There is no defined "gay community" identity. There is just the gay part of humanity.

    • @thekajalflaneur
      @thekajalflaneur Před rokem +13

      He is a lighthouse in the sewer of contemporary queer life. Of life period. He is a practical philosopher, not some academic clap-trap post-structualist psychobabble. He is the real deal ~ dandy, bohemian, effete looking but otherwise quite masculine, aesthete, and true blue. His bravery and wisdom inspires anyone who reads or watches him. Thankyou Mr. Crisp, you have given a blueprint of elegance and stamina for desperate and lonely queers. Rest in glory, darling 💕

  • @robertlittlebury1316
    @robertlittlebury1316 Před 2 lety +57

    For me, Quentin's kindness, humanity, and dignity was far more persuasive than the rather more forceful approach we often see today.

  • @alex2980
    @alex2980 Před rokem +10

    I could listen to Quentin for hours.

  • @Itbmurr1
    @Itbmurr1 Před 3 lety +22

    What a delightful man! His view on America was interesting!

  • @adamday2067
    @adamday2067 Před rokem +9

    Quentin is a very clever person if one listens to his many interviews. Very sad he is no longer with us. God bless and RIP.

  • @andynixon2820
    @andynixon2820 Před 5 lety +60

    I like him and I like her . They're both excellent .

  • @LaPtiteAnglaise
    @LaPtiteAnglaise Před rokem +12

    This gentleman is mesmerising. As a child I was scared of him - I saw him as weird or odd. Androgynous and old. Having lived a life where I did well at school, sport, university and had an interesting career in a very ‘masculine’ profession - I wish I’d found half of his courage and ease with his own identity. Listening to him talk there is insight and intelligence in every sentence. Utterly different from the screaming activists we see these days. He uses logic, reason and wit - and is clear headed. Fascinating and charming.

    • @Globe14
      @Globe14 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Are you subtly saying you loved him because you were too afraid to be like him and followed the establizhment to the letter? Or did I misread?

  • @natgarrison2300
    @natgarrison2300 Před 11 měsíci +5

    a very endearing, clever man!

  • @josephlloyd9636
    @josephlloyd9636 Před rokem +11

    Thank you for sharing this. It's a part of our history that's sadly forgotten. 🥴💯 It's amazing how groundbreaking he actually was. He's truly missed. 💕🏆🚀✨

  • @Jantonov1
    @Jantonov1 Před 3 lety +41

    Now this guy had balls!

    • @ronrendon
      @ronrendon Před 3 lety +2

      They were ovaries actually, that accidentally dropped.

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ronrendon lol that was kinda funny handsome

    • @taniaearle4457
      @taniaearle4457 Před 2 lety +3

      By god yes, he took the Bull by the Horns, and stood firm! Im listening to everything I csn find, he's highly intelligent and honest. I guess him having it so tough he had to learn.

    • @nataliep.9047
      @nataliep.9047 Před 2 lety

      Rockfish; And his balls had guys!

  • @garyfenlon5769
    @garyfenlon5769 Před 5 lety +71

    He's 81 in this clip, still as sharp as a tack.

    • @foodbank2391
      @foodbank2391 Před 5 lety +5

      He talks very good he looks his age but I did not notice it cuz he's cognitive abilities seem very good

    • @danielwhittaker695
      @danielwhittaker695 Před 4 lety +1

      I HATE TO ARGUE BUT HE WAS 77 OR 78 THIS WAS 1986 AND HE WAS BORN IN 1908 SORRY TO BE AN ANAL RETENTIVE BUT HEY............. ;)

    • @535657
      @535657 Před 4 lety +10

      @@danielwhittaker695 This interview is from 1989, the year in the title is wrong, but the description says it's from 1989 and Mavis says 1989 at 0:33. She also says it has been 14 years since their first interview, which was in 1975.

    • @andydixon2980
      @andydixon2980 Před 3 lety +3

      @@535657 Well spotted. I like attention to detail.

    • @jhb61249
      @jhb61249 Před 3 lety +4

      And lived to past 90

  • @maha77
    @maha77 Před rokem +13

    *_'When I was a child, at a time when my brothers wanted to be wonderful things like engine-drivers and the captains of iron ships, I wanted to be a chronic invalid'_* - Quentin Crisp

  • @jimbuxton2187
    @jimbuxton2187 Před 2 lety +11

    So sweet, so deeply intellectual, witty, innocent and self knowing....

  • @trevorrandom
    @trevorrandom Před 5 lety +44

    What a legend ☺

  • @67psych
    @67psych Před rokem +4

    I’m so glad he was happy in his later life.! All the stuff he had been through. ❤❤

  • @ABC_DEF
    @ABC_DEF Před 2 lety +15

    All the talking about dying, being ready for death, his will, and so on -- and yet he lived for another ten years after this interview!

  • @Polemicist0
    @Polemicist0 Před 4 lety +19

    I understand that Sting (Gordon Summers) actually wrote his 1987 track hit, An Englishman in New York, having first been inspired by watching this television interview, between the journalist, Mavis Nicholson and the gay English writer, raconteur and actor, Quentin Crisp.

    • @_Sakidora_
      @_Sakidora_ Před 3 lety +6

      I think their friendship predated that.

  • @Valkonnen
    @Valkonnen Před 3 lety +14

    The thing that he said about Manhattan is really true. You pay the extra expense to live there "In order to be ready to rule the world, should the opportunity arise.".

  • @novo611
    @novo611 Před rokem +6

    Lovley man. Kind

  • @MaximilianvonPinneberg
    @MaximilianvonPinneberg Před 11 měsíci +2

    She is such a great interviewer, a perfect complement to Quentin.

  • @misspurrr-fect3684
    @misspurrr-fect3684 Před 2 lety +7

    Mavis is an outstanding at interviews ...wonderful TV .

  • @user-hv8bu8jx5k
    @user-hv8bu8jx5k Před 2 lety +6

    Mavis Nicholson (born 19 October 1930) is a Welsh writer and radio and television broadcaster.

  • @fionntainmacb
    @fionntainmacb Před rokem +3

    watching these 2 people recalls the suggestion that all people are beautiful, exquisite, endlessly powerful and rich and vibrant and all the opposites too, how wonderful :-)

  • @Stormgryph
    @Stormgryph Před 5 lety +20

    Not living in the real world and being raised around women more, doesn't make one homosexual. How far we've come from beliefs like that. Thank you for being yourself Mr. Crisp.

    • @ellioshiem7892
      @ellioshiem7892 Před 4 lety +10

      Yes that is true.
      In his last book
      He admitted learning
      He was actually transgender.

    • @pennyc7064
      @pennyc7064 Před 3 lety +3

      @@ellioshiem7892 what is the title of his last book?

    • @ellioshiem7892
      @ellioshiem7892 Před 3 lety +3

      @@pennyc7064 THE LAST WORD

  • @Edward1312
    @Edward1312 Před rokem +7

    A witty intelligent raconteur and great British eccentric. Interesting that he said England i.e London was cheap compared to Manhattan (and it was still possible to live cheaply in London in 1989 when this interview was shot) and he was talking about the 1970's, anyway it is no longer the case that you can live cheaply in London

  • @dardude1139
    @dardude1139 Před 3 lety +9

    OMG I love him so much.

  • @michaelamist8703
    @michaelamist8703 Před 3 lety +7

    Quentin I love your truthfulness

  • @moonstar4121
    @moonstar4121 Před 4 lety +9

    He reminds me of an elderly woman very flamboyant.

  • @mariridout2124
    @mariridout2124 Před 3 lety +2

    Wunderbar! Vielen dank für teilen sie uns. Vielen dank nochmal. Viele grüße

  • @neilfranklin5644
    @neilfranklin5644 Před 3 lety +14

    Looks like he could be miss Marple

  • @antoniofrazaomendes4817
    @antoniofrazaomendes4817 Před 5 lety +12

    Wonderful both

  • @ivst3655
    @ivst3655 Před 3 lety +7

    I would imagine a conversation between Quentin Crisp and Gore Vidal.... Would've been the most delightful....

    • @briandelaney9710
      @briandelaney9710 Před 3 lety

      Gore Vidal hated effeminate gay men

    • @ivst3655
      @ivst3655 Před 3 lety +2

      @@briandelaney9710 Then I can imagine it being even better....

  • @rosemarie999
    @rosemarie999 Před 3 lety +3

    Brilliant interview

  • @huub1989
    @huub1989 Před 3 lety +16

    As a child I shared with Quentin the wish to be a chronic invalid. I’m not sure it’s that unusual. I adore Quentin even though he spoke lots of nonsense!

  • @jakecavendish3470
    @jakecavendish3470 Před rokem +9

    He lived next door to me and was always really helpful. He once carried my new washing machine up three flights of stairs by himself and installed it for me, and he was amazingly skilled at welding and angle-grinding

    • @richardsmegma5081
      @richardsmegma5081 Před rokem +3

      That one slipped through 🤣

    • @bristolgareth1
      @bristolgareth1 Před rokem +1

      Lol sure

    • @jakecavendish3470
      @jakecavendish3470 Před rokem +3

      @@bristolgareth1 He also lagged my boiler. I didn't ask him to but he did it as a surprise Christmas present and said "you'd be amazed at the amount it will reduce your fuel bills."

    • @champakalimajumder4985
      @champakalimajumder4985 Před 11 měsíci +1

      He comes across as extremely caring, and sensitive to the needs of others

  • @davidmatthews9088
    @davidmatthews9088 Před rokem +5

    What a shining contrast to the ghastly types who go to gay pride events now.

  • @rafiqadarr6217
    @rafiqadarr6217 Před 2 měsíci

    He was born in the wrong time, in the Edwardian era, but when has there ever been a “right” time? people always dislike/hate other people who are different. His eloquence and his colossal intellect were astounding, he always spoke so beautifully and was a fascinating individual. I wish I could have met you, Quentin. What an incredible person, I never get tired of listening to him speak.

  • @andysandel9325
    @andysandel9325 Před 3 lety +3

    I have always Loved Highly Honoured Kindly To Quentin Crisp which i can honestly say that i can honestly relate to Quentin Crisp in every way being gay for the past 56 years my early childhood was quite very feminine in all my inmost ways in every way.
    Thank you for sharing this Wonderful Remarkable Interview ☕💝💖🌠🌟

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 Před 2 lety

      Sending you good vibes boo. ❤️

  • @karenschmocker8711
    @karenschmocker8711 Před rokem +3

    Strange to hear the question of why when it is now known there is no why....it is perfectly natural to nature. It is not a CHOICE.

  • @normamimosa5991
    @normamimosa5991 Před 3 měsíci +1

    What a delightful man.

  • @davesmith2413
    @davesmith2413 Před rokem +6

    Quentin was unique, a true gentleman and very intelligent and articulate, but a very damaged man, he wore this with dignity .

  • @justme-hh4vp
    @justme-hh4vp Před 3 lety +8

    i've seen a few of his interviews and he doesn't half repeat himself.
    Nonetheless an amazing character

    • @mmarshall8259
      @mmarshall8259 Před rokem

      That is because he gets asked the same or similar questions.

    • @gaycha6589
      @gaycha6589 Před rokem

      Don’t we all?

    • @ktkee7161
      @ktkee7161 Před 4 měsíci

      Quentin Crisp: I have come to the end of my personality. And: "You've told that joke before." You should always repeat a good joke, it's bad ones you shouldn't repeat.

  • @davemattia
    @davemattia Před 3 lety +12

    "Why are you a homosexual?" 2020 she gets cancelled.

    • @itsjustme4848
      @itsjustme4848 Před 3 lety +3

      Appropriately so. Such a stupid question. Has anyone ever been asked “Why are you heterosexual?”

    • @davemattia
      @davemattia Před 3 lety

      @@itsjustme4848

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 Před 2 lety +2

      Lol very true! But in the other commenters defense people make such a huge deal over sexuality it’s ridiculous. People have been sleeping with both sexes since the beginning of time. Also let’s all have a 3 some 🤫😘

    • @ScoundrelDaysSon
      @ScoundrelDaysSon Před 2 lety +1

      @@itsjustme4848 Twaddle. It's a question appropriate to the time. In part to help those that aren't LGBTQ+ to understand, also for us all to understand a thing which shaped his life greatly. She prefaced it marvelously, explaining that when it would've been viewed a prejudiced question - in his eyes - she avoided it, allowing him to state happily 'I've no idea'.
      She's a bloody marvellous interviewer and I'm surprised you don't see that and see their easy companionship - she had interviewed him in the '70's, she'd visited him at home in the UK and the US. Stop and consider that she already knows him, and that he stated she was his favourite interviewer. Clearly that question didn't bother him showing him to answer in a way that suggests there's no way to have influenced it (rightly), she challenged him when he tried to suggest that all 'men' desired similar things, and she questions him to refute the idea it was just a desire for fatherly love (all common beliefs about sexuality/gender stereotypes knocked down in a 1980's interview).
      Incidentally neither has it bothered me when folks I am close with ask about my bisexuality (I had to clearly explain to my one friend, who didn't know, that in our relationship I wasn't then going out having sex with the other half I'd, in his words, 'given up'). It is only a problem when someone, as some folk of both sexualities have, said 'you're pretending/ lying to yourself/ going through a phase/greedy' those sorts of statements are the type to reject out of hand - self-evidently bigoted statements/questions that override one's self, or one's agency.

    • @itsjustme4848
      @itsjustme4848 Před 2 lety

      @@ScoundrelDaysSon Has anyone ever asked you “Why are you bisexual?” If so, what did you say?

  • @Moluccan56
    @Moluccan56 Před rokem +2

    So true about the British shop girls (Manchester), at least in 1981 it was. Same for British Airways female flight attendants, same year. Magazine, not looking at me, passes me a glass of water while flipping a page. Resented performing customer service. 🇨🇦

  • @Kevvywevvy
    @Kevvywevvy Před 11 měsíci +2

    I pray he came back as a butterfly ❤

  • @andysandel9325
    @andysandel9325 Před 3 lety +2

    Absolutely Outstanding Very Interesting Throughout As Always Every Interview Is Absolutely Amazing Wonderful Perfectly More So While It's A Lovely Interview Of Quentin Crisp
    Geniuses Of Life's Masterpiece 💝💖🌠🌟

  • @mariakyriakou1593
    @mariakyriakou1593 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Knows what he's doing...crafty...

  • @mikehudson8884
    @mikehudson8884 Před 3 lety +3

    So very wise.

  • @elissasangi-hd9om
    @elissasangi-hd9om Před rokem +1

    Growing up in NYC from the 1960s through the 1990s, the Lower East side was not unfashionable.
    Be there or be 🔳

  • @rosalindmartin4469
    @rosalindmartin4469 Před rokem +1

    He was well-born. Privileged.

  • @adrienne5080
    @adrienne5080 Před 3 lety +6

    "Why do you think you're a homosexusl?" OMG.... 1981 indeed... Seriously Mavis...??? "Why do you think your straight"🤣🤣

    • @nativevirginian8344
      @nativevirginian8344 Před rokem +1

      He later came to believe he was a woman in a man’s body. He would have it made today.

    • @kriskabin
      @kriskabin Před rokem +2

      Yeah, this is really dated & and unfortunately, Quentin's answer was inaccurate. Homosexuality isn't "caused" by anything, just like being left-handed isn't caused by some family trauma. It just is. We're born this way. Heterosexuals are never asked, "What tragedy caused you to be straight.?" It's ridiculous, rude & ignorant.

    • @ktkee7161
      @ktkee7161 Před 4 měsíci

      @@kriskabin Not for its time, when people still thought homosexuality could be learnt. Be a bit more tolerant, Mavis was brilliant. (And btw, towards the end of his life, he came to believe he was transgender)

  • @sarahjones-jf4pr
    @sarahjones-jf4pr Před 3 lety +4

    "Your world is your friend in America..." until you get shot ,robbed , or knifed..So lucky nothing really happened to Quentin the old charmer."Dark romantic strangers" Do exist I had one once upon a time!.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Před rokem +1

      frightened little creature ... how often in your life have you been shot, robbed or knifed, dearie?

  • @lidijabasanovic9779
    @lidijabasanovic9779 Před 3 lety +2

    At the end he looked like his mother whom he loved.. And he is 80 here, he said it himself

  • @Madmen604
    @Madmen604 Před rokem +4

    He's like Oscar Wilde

  • @vertugallery7099
    @vertugallery7099 Před 11 měsíci +1

    A great person

  • @TheHandsomeman
    @TheHandsomeman Před 3 lety +4

    Genuine.

  • @Madmen604
    @Madmen604 Před rokem +3

    The ideal man is your father when you are a child. Later on you learn that your parents are human and not superheroes at all. As an adult, you may search for that ideal male in your life again as a partner, but yes you will always be dissapointed. Long adult marriages accept imperfection and equity as long as you each compensate for the other's failings.
    But there other marriage patterns beside that.

  • @salfordguy69
    @salfordguy69 Před 5 lety +9

    the young old and ill equipped will always be looked after by Mrs Thatcher!!! Tell that to the Tories in 2018 with Universal Credit food banks and the Suicide Minister!

  • @Myplop
    @Myplop Před rokem +2

    He’s just genius 😊

  • @welshhibby
    @welshhibby Před 2 lety +2

    Delightful man.

  • @raymondkymsuttle
    @raymondkymsuttle Před 11 měsíci +1

    Heterosexuals asking “why are you a homosexual” never think to ask themselves “why are you heterosexual?”

  • @zdog1490
    @zdog1490 Před 3 lety +5

    He seems pretty normal to me

    • @ABC_DEF
      @ABC_DEF Před 2 lety +1

      But as a young man in the 1930s he was not.

  • @marklola12
    @marklola12 Před 3 lety +4

    I love how Mavis says ...SOME MEN when he goes on trying to say all men are a certain way or all like the same thing haha. He is fab but he does overly generalize alot of stuff

  • @ransomcoates546
    @ransomcoates546 Před 3 lety +4

    There seems to me a big unexplained gap in his life. He created himself in England in the 30’s and acted out his style through the 40’s. Then he talks about becoming a life model at an art school. I don’ think you can manage that career through to your late 70’s, when he became famous with the book and movie. What exactly was he doing during those missing 25 years?

    • @_Sakidora_
      @_Sakidora_ Před 3 lety +4

      I think he was a model for the best part of 30 years so there isn't really much of a gap between that and publishing the Naked Civil Servant and the eventual film.

    • @FriendofDorothy
      @FriendofDorothy Před 3 lety +2

      I don't know but he was doing performance art because I saw him live on stage once here in L.A. Same crowd as one saw at all the gay bars; it was as if the beer bust was over so they decided to take in some theater before going home. The rest room was like a bath-house. LOL! I loved his "performance"; all he did was sit with regal aplomb in a chair on stage and answer questions from the audience but it was fun.

    • @ransomcoates546
      @ransomcoates546 Před 3 lety +1

      @@FriendofDorothy Yes, but it was after the book that he did the stage shows. I’m talking about the time before. Someone said he did in fact make a living as an art school model into his seventies.

    • @ABC_DEF
      @ABC_DEF Před 2 lety +2

      Models at art schools didn't have to be young. They could be any age.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Před rokem

      artists models are all ages, shapes and sizes ... I'm sure he had some other meaningless, dreary jobs, too, to make ends meet, but he bore his audience with those pages of his life - do you?? 😬

  • @danielwhittaker695
    @danielwhittaker695 Před 4 lety +5

    THIS INTERVIEW ISNT FROM 1986 HE MENTIONS BEING ABOUT TO TURN 81 AND BETTIE DAVIS,S DEATH WHICH HAPPENED IN OCTOBER 1989!!!!! not to split but hairs but you know.......... lol

    • @23Dawnay
      @23Dawnay Před 3 lety +2

      You claimed in your previous comment that Quentin was 77 or 78 , giving it large that you were right. You didn’t reply to the comments yet here you are making out that your the one who copped the mistake with the dates 😂

  • @paulwalker1793
    @paulwalker1793 Před rokem

    A wonderful man 🌹

  • @hallerd
    @hallerd Před 3 měsíci

    He lived another decade.

  • @davidsimpson9647
    @davidsimpson9647 Před 3 lety +13

    Quentin would have ridiculed 'gay rights' even more now than before, he would have been appalled by the vulgarity of it all. He wasn't interested in narrow interest groups. He stood up for the joys of individuality. Homosexuality was merely incidental.

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 Před 2 lety +4

      Absolutely agree. Like myself he was able to separate his sexuality from his political beliefs.

  • @marinapollock
    @marinapollock Před rokem +1

    Such a fascinating and brave person . Not really interested in the political world or it's egos. More the personal world and the freedoms it offers inwardly.
    Penny arcade always credits him as being a very engaging and intelligent man. Discounted or overlooked because of the Quentin persona he became known for.
    He could talk knowledgeably and intelligently on a range of subjects with the best minds of his generation.
    Dick caveat should've had him on as a guest, done a 45 minute interview examining his formative years and early adulthood in 1930s England.
    Penny arcade chided the producers of an 'English man in New York'. during a bfi interview for suggesting Quentin hated England.
    She said it was not true and much more complicated. He loved England. He could never really get over some of the traumas he experienced there.
    He'd attract hundreds of people in a street at a time , they'd follow him, encircle him. , not out of malice necessarily. He was just so different and they had no context to frame him in..
    To attract that level of attention and still attempt to function as a human being..

  • @conradprytz5415
    @conradprytz5415 Před rokem +3

    As a hero 61 yr old male ,I have such respect for this man ,lived his life just being himself .the gays have worked so hard for their equality in society ,it's a shame the LGBTQ mob are damaging the cause with their agenda.

  • @martha-anastasia
    @martha-anastasia Před 11 měsíci +1

    17$ a week for his room. Now probably renting for 2500$ a month.

  • @raymondkymsuttle
    @raymondkymsuttle Před 11 měsíci

    $17 a week in Manhattan! OMFG! His best quality is his brutal honesty about his failings.

    • @broncotrolly
      @broncotrolly Před 11 měsíci +1

      Thats 42 dollars today. What the hell lol

  • @noladesiree4800
    @noladesiree4800 Před 2 měsíci

    I would have liked to have met him.

  • @SuperAXER
    @SuperAXER Před 5 lety +1

    "La popularidad engendra desprecio"... ¿Realmente quieres lastimarme?

  • @gideonros2705
    @gideonros2705 Před 3 lety +4

    Smiling and nodding racket....😂

  • @stephenvanwoert2447
    @stephenvanwoert2447 Před 2 měsíci

    I wonder if QC could cope in New York in 2024 and how would he survive? Would he even be noticed or relevant? Are there any successors?

  • @RuthCampbell123
    @RuthCampbell123 Před 2 lety +1

    may God love , your lovely

  • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    Is the "world still your friend" in modern day, ordinary people on the street America?

  • @clipstone
    @clipstone Před 5 lety +2

    1989 not '86

  • @gaygambler
    @gaygambler Před 4 lety +3

    💕 Quentin 💖 I’m homosexual. But not camp or effeminate. You wouldn’t know.

  • @yakacm
    @yakacm Před 11 měsíci +2

    I think Quentin and Donald Trump would vie for the title of best combover.

  • @zoom0011
    @zoom0011 Před 5 lety +6

    Looking at Quentin crisp appearance the hairstyle and the makeup I think he likes to be referred to as a senior woman.

  • @baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134

  • @andysmith8890
    @andysmith8890 Před 3 lety +1

    This is in 1989...title needs changing

  • @prettypurple7175
    @prettypurple7175 Před 11 měsíci

    WOW////

  • @hunterluxton5976
    @hunterluxton5976 Před rokem

    His characterisation of England is quite wrong. His description is of London not England. The northern English are different from the southern English. I speak as a Welshman who has lived all over England including various parts of London.

  • @marklola12
    @marklola12 Před 3 lety +2

    great man though obviously so so wrong on the reason why he thought he was gay.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Před rokem +1

      You need to listen to it again

    • @kriskabin
      @kriskabin Před rokem

      Quentin was wrong. He was brilliant, but his speculating that it was "caused" by his illness & too much time with his mother is ignorant & wrong. Nothing, no tragedy, turns a person gay. (If this ridiculous reasoning was true, 80-90% of the world's population would be Queer!)
      We're born this way, just like most ppl are right handed, but a smaller percentage is naturally left handed.

    • @gaycha6589
      @gaycha6589 Před rokem +2

      Really? He was a thinker and seemed very well resolved

  • @margonewman6086
    @margonewman6086 Před 5 lety +17

    Is this where Trump got hair style ?

    • @foodbank2391
      @foodbank2391 Před 5 lety +3

      Very good I see the resemblance never thought of it like that funny 🎀

    • @zoom0011
      @zoom0011 Před 5 lety

      Trump is not wear his hair effeminate like Quinton

    • @a.z.s6679
      @a.z.s6679 Před 3 lety +7

      Pls don’t compare Trump to this wonderful man. It hurts me and so many others.

    • @maddygates9566
      @maddygates9566 Před 3 lety +1

      Yes!!

    • @FriendofDorothy
      @FriendofDorothy Před 3 lety +1

      LOL! Thanks for the laugh.

  • @Myke-ju5lg
    @Myke-ju5lg Před rokem

    Quentin "Chip" in America ?

  • @rogerlephoque3704
    @rogerlephoque3704 Před 3 lety

    Does anyone know the name of the restaurant in NYC?

    • @FriendofDorothy
      @FriendofDorothy Před 3 lety +1

      I'm watching this video Feb. 17, 2021. Maybe no one answered because it's not open anymore?

    • @urbanpoodle
      @urbanpoodle Před 3 lety +5

      It is (was) Chez Milan but it’s no longer there. I think the building still houses a restaurant but I haven’t been uptown to that neighborhood in quite some time.