It shouldn’t come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it. Julie Burchill Read Quote
What sort of sap doesn’t know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? Julie Burchill Read Quote
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. Julie Burchill Read Quote
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast. Julie Burchill Read Quote
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. Julie Burchill Read Quote
Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire. Julie Burchill Read Quote
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense. Julie Burchill Read Quote
Can I just say here how much I hate the word ‘pamper’? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their ‘me time’ must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror. Julie Burchill Read Quote
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile. Julie Burchill Read Quote
