Gypsy Quote by Zoë Heller

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

— Michael Craig-Martin

It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often…

— Karen Abbott

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying…

— Jim Sturgess

My cooking is incredibly haphazard, but I've never pretended it was anything else.

— Sophie Dahl

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

— Glenn Close

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred…

— Audrey Hepburn

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

— Arnold Newman

I always had a bit of a rebellious style.

— Brad Mondo

I won a competition in primary school for my painting of Nottingham's Goose Fair; it was a riot of colour with glitter and sequins.

— Alice Levine

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to…

— Lucian Freud

I was a dancer.

— Inbar Lavi

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the…

— Nat King Cole