Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Brian Slade
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Quotes
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Brian Slade : Man is least himself when he talks in his own person... Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth.
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Curt Wild : Excuse me, fellas, while I raise a glass to the loveliest man in Europe.
Brian Slade : And they tell you it's not natural.
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Reporter : Uh, Brian! Why the make-up?
Brian Slade : Why? Because rock and roll's a prostitute. It should be tarted up. Performed. The music is the mask, while I, in my chiffon and taff - well - varda the message.
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Brian Slade : Ha! Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner!
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[after Curt Wild has exposed himself to an audience]
Brian Slade : They despised him.
Mandy Slade : Yeah. But when you're abused like that, you know you've touched the stars.
Brian Slade : I know. I just... just wish it'd been me. Wish I'd thought of it.
Mandy Slade : You will, love.
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Brian Slade : I should think that if people were to get the wrong impression of me, the one to which you so eloquently referred, it wouldn't be the wrong impression in the slightest.
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Mod Girlfriend : So what are ya, mod or a rocker?
Brian Slade : I'm six of one, half a dozen of the other, really.
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Reporter : Tell us, Brian, are the rumors true when they say you and Curt Wild have some sort of plans up your sleeve?
Brian Slade : Oh, yes. Quite soon we actually plan to take over the world!
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Brian Slade : There's suffering at the birth of a child as at the birth of a star.
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Brian Slade : "I knew I should create a sensation," gasped the Rocket, and he went out.
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Brian Slade : [meets Curt for first time at bar] I just wanted to say... I think your music is tops, really, smashing, the best of the lot.
Curt Wild : [Curt lifts head] Smashing, top hole, jolly f...
[Curt's head falls back and he passes out]
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Brian Slade : [lying in bed in a coke haze] Woman defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
Mandy Slade : I lost my girlhood, true, but it was for you.
