Quotes by John Lone

• I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.
• I have no prejudice against male or female.
• An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.
• But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.
• But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
• I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.
• I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
• I'm not involved with the female world.
• I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
• The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.
• I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.
• I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.
• I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
• I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
• If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.
• So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
• The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.
• I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.
• When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.