Book Quote by Boy George

Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.

— Devendra Banhart

I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.

— David Thewlis

For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big…

— Boy George

Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who…

— Boy George

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that…

— Jane Horrocks

“For many years, biographers and scholars, beginning with her great nephew James Austen-Leigh, presented her as a quiet, reserved, proper woman, but one has…

— bETH pATTILLO

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though…

— Rebecca De Mornay

To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and…

— Elaine Dundy

Early influences included Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Richard Ford, Alice Munro, Denis Johnson - writers who are important to me still and…

— Laura van den Berg

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

— John Clare

She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely…

— Felicity Jones

“I consider Anne of Green Gables to be a mentor, Jane Austen to be a writing hero, and the Bard a fellow name freak…

— Lorilee Craker