I like Dolly Parton and St. Elmo's Fire.
--pre-The Joy Behar Show green room video, "Johnny Weir makes his NCAA tournament predictions," March 18, 2010

We don't know shit about ice dancing!
--universalsports.com, The Loft, Figure Skating Worlds: Ladies Short Program, March 26, 2010
(about his and Tara Lipinski's ability to commentate ice dancing performances; said after the video feed of "The Loft" commentary had ended, but while the audio was still live.)

I think it’s good that you don’t understand everything about my sport. If you have eyes like a baby, you can watch different pieces of art with fresh eyes, plus you won’t be jaded by anything. It makes you unbiased, and that’s great.
--1101.com, Johnny Weir!!!, "Johnny Comes to Our Office," Episode 2: You Weren't Competing Against Anyone, August 31, 2010
(Interview at Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun with Itoi Shigesato)

[Shigesato Itoi: [At the Olympics], you stood out amongst others, you looked very different.]

Was it just the rhinestones?

--1101.com, Johnny Weir!!!, "Johnny Comes to Our Office," Episode 2: You Weren't Competing Against Anyone, August 31, 2010
(Interview at Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun with Itoi Shigesato)

When I skate, I skate on a cloud, on a different universe. I think that’s how people can make great art.
--1101.com, Johnny Weir!!!, "Johnny Comes to Our Office," Episode 2: You Weren't Competing Against Anyone, August 31, 2010
(Interview at Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun with Itoi Shigesato)

Anytime you get men in glitter it's a flamboyant occasion!
--The Billy Bush Show, "Is Johnny Weir Not 'Family Friendly' Enough for 'Stars on Ice'?" March 12, 2010

My family's not huge; we're the black sheep in a family of black sheep, so we're very close.
--icenetwork.com, "Johnny Weir is home for the holidays" by Lynn Rutherford, December 21, 2007

I don't see a problem with African-American people, with gay people, with neurologists, like everyone has their own shtick.
--Sirius OutQ 109, The Frank DeCaro Show, August 29, 2009

The mic was like teabagging me there for a minute.
--Sirius OutQ 109, The Frank DeCaro Show, August 29, 2009

I feel really good that your feet are clean now because that was nasty. They were like tumbleweeds.
--Be Good Johnny Weir, "Back on Top" Season 1, Ep.7, Webisode
(to agentress Tara Modlin)

(T)he only thing I can really change is my ending position. This year, in that short program, I've skated it clean so many times that I'll change it. I'll either feel myself up, or I'll do a head twist, or a bop, or like, wipe something off my mouth, and at the Olympics, I just felt like, you know what, I'm going to blow a kiss to everybody.
--Los Angeles Times, "Johnny Weir talks to the Los Angeles Times" (video), by Maria Elena Fernandez, March 8, 2010

For every moment I feel I could have had by winning the medal, I’ve gained by somehow not winning the medal. I don’t know how that worked.
--latimesblogs.com, Show Tracker, "Johnny Weir's Weird World ... we kinda love it," by Maria Elena Fernandez and Denise Martin, March 8, 2010

I went to Galina, because I felt that she could inspire me every day. If not just through her sheer talent as a coach, then by her iron fist and it worked out great for me. That's why I chose her. I chose her, because she could kick my ass.
--zap2it.com, from inside the box, "Be Good Johnny Weir": It's Johnny stepped up a notch" by Jethro Nededog, March 8, 2010|

I, of course, would prefer to do my own reality show for the rest of my life, but I'd love to be a Real Housewife of Atlanta. 
--tvsquad.com, "Johnny Weir Talks Olympic Scandals, Reality TV and Becoming a 'Real Housewife'" by Kim Potts, March 8 2010

The thing I do mostly to keep my cool and to stay relaxed is, I clean like a crazy person. I vacuum, even if it’s 4 a.m. in the morning and I’m leaving for a flight. I will vacuum, so there are lines in the carpet for when I return. I’m a clean freak but I love it.
--vancouversun.com, "U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir is ready for his close-up," by Chantal Eustace, February 19, 2010

Swiffering and Windexing anything and everything. So glamorous...
--Twitter, July 12, 2009

I lost all my shame when I went out there in the Swan. So now I can pretty much go out in anything. I could go out there as a giant banana, and I would feel completely comfortable.
--sports.espn.go.com, Outside the Lines, "Johnny Weir is a Real Man" by Jim Caple, January 14, 2010

I think people in life often get typecast or pigeonholed as the first job they choose in life. I don’t want that. Whatever I do next, I won’t associate with figure skating. I’m in figure skating and interested in figure skating now because of the sport, not just because of the fashion.
--crushable.com, "Exclusive: Johnny Weir's Fashionable Future" by Amanda Ernst, March 3, 2010

If I had to do something after the Vancouver games, I’d probably say something like “Defiance” or “Defiant Angel” maybe. 
--Movieline.com, “Johnny Weir Talks to Movieline About Skating Politics, Lady Gaga and Life After the Olympics” by Julie Miller, March 3, 2010

"Conservative" is the dirtiest word to me.
--Extra, March 2, 2010

I don't necessarily have to make myself funny or interesting or anything because my life is pretty crazy anyway.
--people.com, People TV, "Johnny Weir is Headed to the Oscars!" March 3, 2010

Why does this pillow smell like armpit and chicken noodle soup?
--Be Good Johnny Weir, "Johnny on the Rocks," Season 1, Ep. 3, Webisode

…and they fell in love with a beautiful young boy from Pennsylvania, his name was Johnny…
--lifeskate.com, Pop Star on Ice starring Johnny Weir, video of Q&A after premier at NY NewFest Film Festival, July 11, 2009
(speaking of Directors/Producers David Barba and James Pellerito)

It offended my sensibilities when Paris didn't cut the cheese properly.
--Post-2010 Olympic press conference, February 24, 2010

There’s something so boring to me about going out in a black catsuit and looking like you’re a giant sperm. 
--theglobeandmail.com, "Olympian Johnny Weir skates a fine line" by Jeanne Beker, February 26, 2010 

I think that to be a great athlete you have to be an interesting person. You have to never be afraid to be yourself and voice your own opinions. 
--theglobeandmail.com, "Olympian Johnny Weir skates a fine line" by Jeanne Beker, February 26, 2010 

(M)y main goal in my lifetime, however long it may be, is to be great at everything I do. And never hate one second of what I’m doing.
--vancouversun.com, "U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir is ready for his close-up," by Chantal Eustace, February 19, 2010

If I had millions of dollars, and I could go out in Pennsylvania and splurge on one thing, I would buy Dutch Wonderland amusement park, so me and all my friends could have fun every day of the year.
--nbcphiladelphia.com, "Olympian Faves: Around Town with Figure Skater Johnny Weir," February 9, 2010

I'm like Yoda.
--Be Good Johnny Weir, "Back on Top," Season 1, Ep. 7, Outtake 3

That's like whore-red. You're going to knock boots tonight, aren't you?
--Be Good Johnny Weir, "Back on Top," Season 1, Ep. 7, Webisode
(to agentress Tara Modlin)

I have a woman-voice when I'm on the phone.
--KFNS, Martin Radio (St. Louis, MO), "Celebrity Phone-in," May 27, 2010

My darlings, please get out there, be fashionable and get laid.
--sundancechannel.com, SUNfiltered, "Summer fun in the hot city," June 25th, 2010

I wouldn’t be that person that has a Wonderbra with leather cones coming off the shoulder with boobies selling at Patricia Field in New York. I want to have mass appeal.
--Los Angeles Times, All The Rage, "Johnny Weir loves Balenciaga bags, supports same-sex marriage and addresses that Kate Gosselin rumor" by Max Padilla, April 16, 2010

My most beloved thing is probably my pair of bunny-fur bedroom slippers I got in Moscow eight years ago. They are so old and falling apart, but they still trump any Ugg I have ever seen as far as “slipper style” goes.
--sundancechannel.com, Full Frontal Fashion, "A Q&A with Johnny Weir," by Bradford Shellhammer. January 11, 2010

I find I learn a lot about myself in doing press because it's me, performing a bunch of blah blah, about me.
--figureskatersonline.com/johnnyweir, Johnny Weir Online, journal, “Whirlwind,” June 20, 2009

You know, it's not easy waking up every morning feeling like an 85-year-old man in a 25-year-old body.

--Details magazine, "Evan Lysacek vs. Johnny Weir--In the 2010 Olympics, these two are the real-life Blades of Glory" by Mark Harris, March 2010

Ten years, five days a week, three hours a day on a giant, freezing ice cube. That’s my life.
--Pop Star on Ice

Runway shows from artists like Viktor & Rolf, Gareth Pugh, Denis Simachev, John Galliano, and Alexander McQueen are all so inspiring, they make me want to run down the street in a pair of pink briefs, metallic-gold shoulder pads, and a giant sable coat with pointy sneakers made of matryoshka dolls.
--sundancechannel.com, Full Frontal Fashion, "A Q&A with Johnny Weir," by Bradford Shellhammer. January 11, 2010

I eat at a certain time. I do laundry at a certain day. My whole life is so regimented. It's hard for me to live like a young person. I'll be one of those tragic 80-year old people running around buying Porsches and Corvettes because they miss their youth. I already live the life of an early bird specialer.
--thedailybeast.com, Sexy Beast, "The Outrageous Johnny Weir," by Choire Sicha, January 12, 2010

I don’t sweat much when I skate; I assume if you were a big, burly kind of guy, you’d be very uncomfortable, sticking to a velvet Onesie. But for me it’s good, everything’s held in place, you’re not squashing anything when you’re doing these spins, rotating and all that business going on.

--Time Out New York, "I, New York--Bold questions: Johnny Weir, Olympic figure skater, fashion plate on ice" by Allison Williams, Issue 746 : Jan 14–20, 2010

For me, shopping is almost more important than skating.
--KNBC, interview by Nick Verreos, February 17, 2010

Should I have left my pants at home?
 --2010 Independent Spirit Awards, March 5, 2010
(covering the blue carpet for the Sundance Channel)

I think of myself as a Carrie but everyone thinks they’re a Carrie. I have a lot of Charlotte in me, I’m very uptight in many ways, and I’ve got some Samantha in me too though.
--people.com, “Johnny Weir’s Pink Mullet Inspiration: ‘Sex and the City 2!” May 25, 2010

Figure skating is a bit dated – it’s like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time and I’m going to try to Chanel it up a little bit. My dream would be to have an aerialist come down from the ceiling, and only six of the best skaters that I love would be in the show. I’d have Lady Gaga performing on one end and Elton John performing on the other.
--wsj.com, Speakeasy, "Skater Johnny Weir on Fashion, Rivals–and Lady Gaga," by Candace Jackson, April 30, 2010

I’ve fallen down more than I’d like to admit in life but I always get up, and I always dust myself off and I keep moving because my parents taught me that.
--greginhollywood.com, “Johnny Weir chats with Greg In Hollywood about inner-strength, the Olympics and Evan Lysacek,” by Greg Hernandez, April 21, 2010

My inspiration is just to be fantastic. I change my hair, my face and my look every day because I have so many different personalities inside.
--foodfashionista.com, video interview, “Johnny Weir Interview at Fashion Feast Gala Vegas Uncork'd,” May 11, 2010

She is the best roommate--she stayed away all day today so I could run around naked and watch Real Housewives of Atlanta. I will do the same for her.
--People.com, "Lemon Pledge Helps Johnny Weir Keep Nerves in Check" by Lorenzo Benet, February 17, 2010
(speaking about Tanith Belbin)

It’s kind of Gaga and New York street urchin.
--Out.com, "Catching Up With Johnny Weir" by Dustin Fitzharris, July 6, 2010
(describing his style)

Paris is over watching Nurse Jackie. He cut his nipple today while shaving. I gave him a cupcake for the pain. Bought an amazing tree today.
--Twitter, April 8, 2010

I don't believe in sweatpants. And I rarely believe in anything very, very comfortable.
--WGN Radio 720 (Chicago, IL), Dave Kaplan talks with Johnny Weir, March 24, 2010

I consider my fans my family.
--LATALK Radio, "The Alternative," interview by Terry Le Grand, April 18, 2010

I love my penis, I absolutely love it.
--LATALK Radio, "The Alternative," interview by Terry Le Grand, April 18, 2010

[What are you most proud of?]

Through everything -- human ugliness and being judged, bad fashion sense and good fashion sense -- I’ve managed to stay very true to myself. I’ve never buckled to pressure. I’ve never given into anyone, and I’ve done everything my way. I think that’s something to be very proud of because that’s something difficult to do nowadays. 
--Out.com, "Catching Up With Johnny Weir" by Dustin Fitzharris, July 6, 2010

It doesn’t mean anything at all about what you’re packing!
--Out.com, "Catching Up With Johnny Weir" by Dustin Fitzharris, July 6, 2010
(commenting on his "small" size 8 feet)

If he doesn’t want to skate to music that’s pretty and wear a pretty costume, then go rollerblade or skateboard or do one of those extreme sports.
--The New York Times, "Figure Skating Rivalry Pits Athleticism Against Artistry" by Alan Schwarz, March 18, 2008
(speaking about Evan Lysacek)

There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.
--The New York Times, "Figure Skating Rivalry Pits Athleticism Against Artistry" by Alan Schwarz, March 18, 2008

I may get the urge to throw more glitter in my hair.
--People.com, "Lemon Pledge Helps Johnny Weir Keep Nerves in Check" by Lorenzo Benet, February 17, 2010

 I saw one skater out of the corner of my mascara.
--People.com, "Lemon Pledge Helps Johnny Weir Keep Nerves in Check" by Lorenzo Benet, February 17, 2010

I was nervous last night. So I Pledged everything in my room. Some people eat, some people drink – but I Pledge everything.
--People.com, "Lemon Pledge Helps Johnny Weir Keep Nerves in Check" by Lorenzo Benet, February 17, 2010

Representative.
Representative!
Representative.
Representative!

[Recorded woman's voice: "Are you still there?"]

She's a bitch, I'm not going to talk to her.
--Be Good Johnny Weir, Season 1, Ep. 9, Webisode 2
(dealing with an airline's phone menu system)

When I travel, it's very important that I feel like I'm at home. I take things that remind me of home or make me feel like I am at home by having a whole selection of coats, or a whole selection of shoes to choose from.
--Be Good Johnny Weir, Season 1, Ep. 9, Webisode 2

When you wear pants, and they mark you like this, that means they're a little snug.
--Be Good Johnny Weir, Season 1, Ep. 9, Webisode 1
(to agentress Tara Modlin)

Do you have to poop? Yes, she has to poop, well, that's good. That's a plus, look at the bright side.
--Be Good Johnny Weir, Season 1, Ep. 9, Webisode 1
(to agentress Tara Modlin)

As Viacheslav Romanov:
I am reporting to you live from filthy bathroom in Newark, Delaware, United States of Amerifunk.
--Pop Star on Ice

I'm very homesick today. Maybe I just miss my vacuum? That's probably it.
--Twitter, February 22, 2010

And they’ve sort of pitted me and Evan against each other like Britney and Christina. I’m Christina, of course.
--New York magazine, "The Less Flamboyant One" by Emma Rosenblum, January 24, 2010

I have small feet, and I like to kind of extend the wealth of my foot.
--The Wendy Williams Show, April 28, 2010
(explaining why he likes pointy shoes)

I don’t know what my life will be. I may compete, perform, go back to school, or become a trophy wife!
--Sundancechannel.com, Full Frontal Fashion, "After the Olympics: a Q&A with Johnny Weir" by Bradford Shellhammer, April 27, 2010

[How many sequins are too many?]

What kind of question is that? There are never too many.
--Outsports.com, "Johnny Weir: The Outsports Interview, Part 2" by Cyd Zeigler, Jr., September 7, 2009

...I’d be scared shitless of the Williams sisters. Those are some big girls to get on their bad side.
--Outsports.com, "Johnny Weir: The Outsports Interview, Part 1" by Cyd Zeigler, Jr., September 2, 2009

I don’t know if I’m the marrying kind. I’m very much catlike. And sex isn’t that important to me. Partnership is something I have with my family and my friends. My close circle of friends are my partners in crime. I have a certain way I like to live. If someone wanted to be with me, they’d either have to be very dumb or very accepting.
--Outsports.com, Jock Talk Blog, "Johnny Weir on marriage and his upcoming book" by Cyd Zeigler, Jr., April 15, 2010

I am an effeminate person. I like sparkly things. I like the theater of figure skating. But in no way does that make me less macho than somebody that gets out there in a muscle shirt and tattoos with grease stains or whatever.
--HBO, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Interview with Frank Deford, February 9, 2010

I don't believe in perfect role models. What is a good masculine sporting role model? I don't claim to be a role model for everyone. Maybe for people who feel they are freaks or people who have something to express deep inside and can't get it out.
--The Province, "Going against the flow: It's Johnny Weir-- the d is silent," February 17, 2010

I like making a statement and a man carrying a turquoise bag is a statement.
--Los Angeles Times, All The Rage, "Johnny Weir loves Balenciaga bags, supports same-sex marriage and addresses that Kate Gosselin rumor" by Max Padilla, April 16, 2010

i'm afraid of sharks, spiders, germs, bugs, barracuda, flying, dark, war and everyone wearing the same thing.
--Twitter, June 29, 2019 (Bluefly chat)

Blogger's note: "i'm" in original tweet

i was very stupid publicly in the past, but now i am stupid and own it. 
--Twitter, June 29, 2010 (Bluefly chat)

Bloggers note: "i" as in original tweet

Sorry, I have glitter falling off me.
--Lifeskate.com, video interview, “Johnny Weir rings in 2010—Russian Style.” January 1, 2010

I actually really liked both of my costumes at the Olympic games. I really liked what they said about me and my personality. That short program with the pink tassel was very cool, I thought. It was ripped apart, pretty much, but it was very cool, and I loved the kind of royal silk corset on there with all the pink ... And for all-time, I think my swan costume from the 2006 Olympics short program was perfect. It was kind of what put me on the map for fashion, and then, of course, my Lady Gaga 'Poker Face' costume.
--popeater.com, “Johnny Weir Never Leaves the House Without a Balenciaga Bag” by Denise Warner  March 11, 2010

I love pointy shoes because I have small feet, and I like to make them look longer. And plus it makes me walk more like I’m wearing skis. I like that.
--homo-neurotic.com, “Johnny Weir on ‘Dirty Love,’ His Tell-All Book, and His Purses” interview by smhayhurst, May 10, 2010

Get 'em all out there in bustiers and fishnets.
-- lvrj.com, “Naughty, naughty girls being real bad” by Doug Elfman, May 11, 2010
(On his idea for a Vegas show, Bad Girls of Skating featuring Tonya Harding and Nicole Bobek)

I’ve embraced men in thongs, I’ve embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying “fierce.”
--Movieline.com, “Johnny Weir Talks to Movieline About Skating Politics, Lady Gaga and Life After the Olympics” by Julie Miller, March 3, 2010

I think people don't take enough risks. People are very hung up on the way they appear to other people. If there's too much boob, too much leg, too much need of a man girdle--a mirdle. Rock your own style and never be afraid to fall down. Even if you look ridiculous one day, you'll fix it the next day. There's no harm in having fun.
--msn.com, Wonderwall, “Johnny Weir launches music career with his new song 'Dirty Love'” by Michelle Lanz, April 23, 2010

It’s a pageant, I should do something crazy, so this feather bolero contraption is where it’s at.
--2010 Miss USA Pageant red carpet, May 16, 2010

If I'd grown up in New York City, maybe I'd be completely different. I'm still a country boy to the core. People who perceive me as a diva don't know me. I love being barefoot in the grass, drinking chocolate milk, eating a giant tomato.
--The Province, "Going against the flow: It's Johnny Weir-- the d is silent," February 17, 2010

As Viacheslav Romanov:
You are very sexy, and thank you. If I didn't like cats so much, I'd take you home now.
--Sundance Channel, Be Good Johnny Weir, "God Bless America" Season 1, Ep.8
(to agentress Tara Modlin)

[What did you wear when you played soccer?] 

I actually wore a mini-skirt made of marabou.
--NPR, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, "Johnny Weir on Skating Fashion and 'Man Cleavage,'" March 6, 2010

This is Viacheslav Romanov to interview mother of super diva Johnny Weir. He came from her vagina.
--Sundance Channel, Be Good Johnny Weir, "Big in Japan," Season 1, Ep. 6

My daughter, @ParisChilders sitting on my couch helping me knit a blanket, it warms the cockles of my heart.
--Twitter, August 20, 2010

My characters are a little bit askew, I suppose. They're not very literal, and I suppose the character I was trying to play was kind of maybe a hot, neon pink cigarette kind of falling away toward the end of its life. Maybe that's the character I was trying to play. You can kind of make anything out of it that you want.
--NPR, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, "Johnny Weir on Skating Fashion and 'Man Cleavage,'" March 6, 2010
(on his I Love You, I Hate You costume)

Everyone has nipples.
--lifeskate.com, Johnny Weir "Everyone has nipples," video made at Figure Skating in Harlem's Skating with the Stars, April 5, 2010

I'm naked for at least 83 percent of my life.
--lifeskate.com, Johnny Weir "Everyone has nipples," video made at Figure Skating in Harlem's Skating with the Stars, April 5, 2010

You know you're from Lancaster County when you preach the merits of a crock pot to other housewives in the cold cut aisle at Whole Foods.
--Twitter, August 2, 2010

This heat makes me think about skating topless. Nipple tassles.
--Twitter, July 22, 2010

I’m an ice skater. I’m all about the glitter.
--VF.com, "Johnny Weir, Body Paint: The Outtakes" by Jessica Flint, March 1, 2010

They're like finger condoms!
--2010 Independent Spirit Awards, March 5, 2010
(covering the blue carpet for the Sundance Channel; commenting on his fingers-only gloves)

To me, gymnastics screams metallic gold blazer.
--Interview before Women's U.S. Gymnastics Championships, August 14, 2010
(commenting on his outfit)

I had movement not only in my heart, but in my pants.
--PerezTV, "The Gays on Things that Matter!...at the 2010 Logo Awards,"  NewNextNow Awards red carpet, June 8, 2010
(on his reaction to seeing Lady Gaga's Alejandro video for the first time)

With all of the magnificence that I saw today, the first thing I go to is wedgies.
--Universal Sports, Around the Gym, August 15, 2010
(commenting on U.S. Nationals' women's gymnastic competition)

I think, it's the music and the costumes that turn most men off 'cause they want to see spandex men hitting each others' ass and throwing a ball.
--HBO, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Interview with Frank Deford, February 9, 2010

You're like a liver sausage in a wig.
--Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Season 2, Ep. 6
(commenting on Griffin's skating)

Blogger's note: This is based on a line in Absolutely Fabulous, in which Patsy Stone describes Donatella Versace as "Liver sausage in a wig." (Book Clubbin', Season 5, Ep 2). Johnny also used another line from Ab Fab in a 2011 quote.

I work myself to the bone. I work hard to make the people who support me happy. I’m training hard and I’m skating and I’m working, and I just don’t want to disappoint my fans.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

It’s very hard, but you know, someone literally came to my coach while I was crying behind a curtain and said, "We wish we had known Johnny was going to skate that well, because we were pushing the two other Americans." And that takes balls to say that.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

[Evan Lysacek is] easier to put on a Wheaties box. 
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I went out there and I did everything I could possibly do, and I knew going into it that a medal wasn’t in my sights. It was political. In figure skating, there’s this thing, there’s a way that you can say, "Okay, if you help this skater, our skater, and promote him and push him to the top of the podium and help him get there, we will help yours." There’s a lot of that that goes on, and America likes to try and stay away from that issue, but everyone does it. I skated great, Evan skated great, we probably both should have been on the podium somewhere, but you know, the team official came to me and said, "We didn’t know you were going to skate like that."
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I think if I had been more p.c., had I played by the rules a bit more, I’d be the Olympic champion this year.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I’m a realist. I’ve been in a couple of relationships, one of them was really long and it ended very badly and heartbreakingly. It was that first puppy love, but already it felt like forever love. It ended, I was heartbroken, and it made me really think about what I wanted and what this life could be with someone else, and I realized I would have ten lifetimes with my best girlfriends before I would get into something just physically.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I only let bears do my beauty. I like beauty bears.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

We’ll have strippers, contortionists, porn stars, singers, athletes. It evokes Berlin at night before the Second World War: painted ladies swinging on birdcage swings, beautiful men dancing and gyrating on each other up on top of buildings, and a gorgeous cabaret singer belting at the piano. That’s what I want. Just add some ice skating.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

It would be a dream to compete in an Olympics in Russia, but I’m realistic. There will be skaters who are 19 and 20 who will be at the top, and even if I did make it, it would just be a nostalgia thing. If politically I couldn’t make it work and do well at this age, and I couldn’t do it four years ago, I’m not going to be able to do it at 29. And I’m very understanding of that. I have to make the most of what I can while I still can. I’ll be public as long as people will have me.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

Figure skating is a very staid sport. It’s very dusty. It’s old. The people that are judging are 30 years more advanced in their lives and they’re not necessarily going to understand what we like, our hairstyles, our costumes. But they’re judging us. You try to impress them, but I would sooner slit my wrists than sell out. My quote-unquote flamboyance—I hate that word—but my flamboyance and my opinion on the world and that I’m not afraid of who I am, that hurt me.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I don’t believe that anyone can complete me. I’m too fussy. There are lots of things I wish I could change in myself but I can’t—where things go, how things are done. Maybe when I’m older I’ll learn to give that up, but you know what? No one makes me happier than myself.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca,  August 15, 2010

There’s always a little black book for the physical things, but when you’re sick and you’re lying in bed, you want your friends there.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca,  August 15, 2010

I’m not saying I’m gay, bisexual, multisexual, transsexual. I’m just me. And tomorrow if I want to marry a man, I’ll marry a man. If I want to marry a woman, I’ll marry a woman. It’s not categorizing. It’s not a box. But the reason I haven’t told the nitty-gritty and the dirty past and what I chose to be involved with sexually is because, first of all, it’s trashy. It’s not cute.
----New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

My sexuality is not something I’m ashamed of. It’s not something I’m not sure of, it’s just that I have a very specific opinion of what sexuality is. For me, sexuality is sex. You can be heterosexual or homosexual with sex but be completely opposite with the relationship aspect of it. The two can go hand in hand, but they don’t have to. So, while someone can enjoy having sex with women, they could be totally happy marrying one of their bros.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

My whole stance is that I just want people to react to who I am, I don’t want people to react to what I am.
-- New York magazine,"The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I filled out my census form and I wrote down that I was a Pacific Islander because yes, I’m white, but why is that important? Why is anything important? You don’t need to have labels.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I’m completely self-sufficient. I don’t need anyone for anything. I can have sex with myself, I can love myself, I can do all those things myself. The importance that people place on me not having another half even if it’s just for sex, it’s irrelevant to me. It’s very old-school. When you put people in boxes, you take away a lot of who that person is. How many gay men do we know who are completely straight-acting, who don’t even seem gay but they get classified in the same box as somebody who’s a drag queen? It’s void. It’s not real.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca,  August 15, 2010

You don’t need to have labels. I would marry a woman. I very well could. People laugh at me, but why is that so funny? I love women.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

The goal is to do a show at Radio City Music Hall. The whole show will be about self-acceptance and self-beauty and what you see in yourself.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, New York magazine, August 15, 2010

This guy sent me a picture of his dick.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca,  August 15, 2010

On my show, whenever we say something that shouldn’t be on, we say "cocaine" right after it so they can’t use it. Cocaine, cocaine, cocaine!
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I was offered to do a porno movie. It was a masturbation movie. I looked at it and said no. It’s dirty. So I won’t do porn, I won’t do anything where I have to wear a big fuzzy animal costume, like no Disney On Ice or anything, and that’s basically it. I’ll try pretty much anything else. I mean, I don’t want to drive a Zamboni.
-- New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I want everyone to taste cotton candy when they see me skate.
--WEBNtv, "Up Close with Johnny Weir", October 7, 2009

I've fallen. I've screwed up. The thing is just sparkle so much that nobody notices. Yeah, that's it. Sparkle! We've got to sparkle!
--Slate, "Disco-Ball Dresses and Spandex: A dispatch from transgender camp for kids" by Bedford Hope, August 2, 2010

[What advice would you give Justin Beiber on how to survive fame and fortune in Hollywood?]

Justin Bieber, don't get into drugs. Don't wear leather pants.
--thefablife.com, "Save Justin Bieber Wednesdays: Ne-Yo and Johnny Weir edition," August 18, 2010

I can be told to be subjected to a gender test, I can have my clothes attacked, but when you attack my people, my army, that's when I get pissed off!
--NYDailyNews.com, Gatecrasher, "Cops pull guns on 'Piranha 3D' stars Kelly Brook, Jessica Szohr en route to Las Vegas," August 19, 2010

I go to my seamstress and go through many fittings, making sure everything is just right, and then we sparkle the hell out of it.
--bradfordshellhammer.com, “Johnny Weir,” January 12, 2010

Sunday routine. Whole Foods, Cleaning, Polishing, disco boogie.
--Twitter, August 15, 2010

When I go out there, I want to be pretty! So that’s the end of it. I will fight to the death to be pretty. 
--lifeskate.com, Pop Star on Ice, Q & A after New York premiere, NewFest Film Festival, June 11, 2009

To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.
--vanityfair.com, “Figure Skater Johnny Weir Just Called Us From Japan to Discuss Why He Wants to Reinvent Himself Like Madonna Did” by Jessica Flint, July 8, 2010

Damn, it’s hot. I can’t get over the heat of the summer; maybe it’s global warming, but, in my twisted little mind, summer is when people’s inner sexiness starts to reappear, and that’s why it gets hot. The shirtless-ness, the bikinis, the sky-high stilettos of the drag queens…it’s amazing.
--sundancechannel.com, SUNfiltered, "Hot child in the city: 25 again, Japan trip, and constant jet-setting," July 20th, 2010

In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can’t really be applied to a nine-to-five.
--New York magazine, "The Johnny Weir Spectacular" by Amy Larocca, August 15, 2010

I even smelled like a man after just watching it.
--Interview before Women's U.S. Gymnastics Championships, August 14, 2010
(Commenting on prior men's event)

I refuse to fit into a box that is predetermined for me. I am happy living my life as it comes to me. Let me enjoy it. I love everyone.
--Twitter, April 26, 2010

Out of ugly, I think, the most important thing to do in life is to make something beautiful.
--2010 Olympic press conference, February 24, 2010