So next time you're watching a performance, just think about the fact that this skinny tiny little blade not only will hold 800 pounds of force when you come down on a quadruple triple jump, but it also holds every bit of work and every dream these skaters have ever dreamt in the balance.
--USA channel, pairs short, U.S. Nationals, January 25, 2024

(talking about figure skating blades after pairs short program)

At any given moment, we’re surrounded by dreamers dreaming. Don’t be scared to be kind. Don’t be scared to stand in the light. Don’t be scared of support. Don’t be scared of your ambitions. Don’t be scared to dream. If you ARE ever scared, we’re out here cheering for you.

--Twitter, July 29, 2021 

I need to stop watching true crime documentaries. Really scary dreams, suspicious of pretty much every human I meet and don’t get me started about the raccoons who nimbly access my waste receptacles & leave half eaten cheesecakes on the lids as a warning message to me...

--Twitter, February 25, 2021

My dream for us is always to have a Sonny and Cher variety moment, late night, where we just enjoy ourselves and have so much fun. 

--bigstory.ap.org, "Lipinski, Weir shine as a top pair at skating championships" by Dan Gelston, January 20, 2017 

(on Johnny's future career plans with Tara Lipinski)

[Nick McCarvel: Now lastly, we interviewed you in September on Icenetwork, and you told Agnes Zawadzki two careers that you would take on if you weren't a skater. Do you remember what they were?]

Um, I feel like fashion designer was one of them? No?

[Nick McCarvel: No.]

Don't...I feel like...[long pause]...stripper? No?

[Nick McCarvel: Not quite. But maybe.]

Orthodontist! I know that's gotta be a...no what did I say because I can do lots of things?

[Nick McCarvel: Physicist and astronaut.]

Certainly. Yes. You know I keep those in my back pocket. Those are things that I've already, like, accomplished, and I have worked on a little bit. So those other things I gave you were, you know, hopes and dreams. Strippin'.
--icenetwork.com, "How Much Does Johnny Weir Know About Johnny Weir?" video, Bank of America Special Olympics Showcase at Bryant Park, February 24, 2015

We'd love to do the Westminster Dog Show, we'd love to be part of NASCAR, we'd love to be part of the Super Bowl. We have big dreams and ambition, but as far as play-by-play commentary, [figure skating] is where we belong.
--advocate.com, "The Moment Johnny Weir Cried in Sochi" by Annie Hollenbeck, November 13, 2014
(on the possibility of doing other sports commentary with Tara Lipinski)

Severe jet-lag monsters all evening. Is it normal to dream of yourself as the Angelina Jolie fish from Nemo? Goodnight Mr. Rabbit.
--Twitter, June 18, 2014 

I don't think we clearly grasped how we've done because we weren't able to watch it as a broadcast. But I think for us, it was a dream. We had a lot of fun, we enjoyed each other, we found a rhythm, we found who we will be as broadcasters and we'll only get better.

I think that's all we were expecting, and everything else is beautiful, beautiful whipped topping.
--usatoday.com, "Sochi won't be last of Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir" by Nancy Armour, February 22, 2014
(on his commentating with Tara Lipinski at the Olympics)

We try to take the reality of what is happening on the ice and turn it into something entertaining instead of just sitting there watching people's dreams get crushed.
--latimes.com, "Sochi Olympics: Johnny Weir is just being his out, open self" by Bill Plaschke, February 18, 2014
(on his Olympic commentating)

Does anyone else have dreams where you swim in a Swarovski vault in the fashion of Scrooge McDuck circa 1990? #ducktales
--Twitter, January 2, 2014

Seventeen years ago, a sunny day came along where the ice that covered a bleak cornfield glistened in the late afternoon sun. Seventeen years ago, my feet were covered for the first time by leather and steel. Seventeen years ago, I took my first step onto the ice, in the most unlikely of circumstances, yet dressed head to toe in dreams.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: The Ice" October 23, 2013
(on retiring from competitive skating)

Growing up skinny, socially awkward and with a weird craft, I always wanted to be cool. I always wanted to be popular and I dreamt constantly of being like Justin, Joey, Lance, Chris and J.C. from *NSYNC, of being a star. I wasn’t prepared however, for the flip-side of popularity. I wasn’t prepared that everything you say will have a 50/50 response, that complete strangers hate you for no reason aside from the fact that you didn’t believe the same things they did. I wasn’t prepared.

--fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: Popular" September 19, 2013

Humans live by a dream and a wish. Once you have decided on something in your mind, it is very hard to change your opinion and wise up to face facts.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny’s World: The Impossible Dream" June 6, 2013

I'm misread, I think. People tend to think that I'm putting on an act, or that I'm being "refreshing," as they say, just to appeal to a different demographic, a different set of people. And it's not that. This whole career, this whole journey for me, has just been about myself. It's a very selfish dream to want to go to the Olympics and to compete well, win medals, that kind of thing.
--nbcolympics.com, "Johnny Weir: In his own words," pre-2006 Olympics interview

Let your kids dream for themselves, they can’t fulfill your broken dreams.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: Stage," December 20. 2012

[Once you said that when you skate, you go into your dream world. And you want to take the audience with you. What does your world look like?]

Like the inside of a cloud. There are sparkles floating everywhere and it smells of Chanel #5.
--sport-express.ru, "Johnny Weir: 'At Heart, I'm an Old Russian Woman'" by Slava Malamud, June 6, 2012, interview date April 14, 2012, as translated by Tatiana Edrenkina

[What were your best and worst ever dreams?]

I had a dream that I was happy and I had a beautiful life and everything was wonderful and I didn't hurt and wasn't sad. I keep having a dream that I'm being stalked and chased, so that's probably the worst.
--figureskatersonline.com/johnnyweir, Johnny Weir Online, questions & answers, January 2007

[When you started skating, Oksana Baiul was your inspiration. Who’s your inspiration now?]

My inspiration isn’t so much a person as an ideal. I want my skating to take people to another planet. I strive to drift away into a dream world.
--vanityfair.com, VF Daily, "Vancouver 2010 Olympics Watch: Figure Skater Johnny Weir" by Marnie Hanel, February 11, 2010

[What was your yearbook quote?]

Pushkin: "Upon the brink of the wild stream, he stood and dreamt a mighty dream." Beautiful quote. But I wasn't into high school. I had a really aggressive Versace bookbag, and nobody liked me.
--People, May 14, 2012

I don't need to be a role model for the masses. I've never been someone to follow that dream, and to be the "Wheaties box" kind of athlete. If there are certain people that can be inspired by what I do, and everything that I've gone through, that's amazing. But I think when I wake up in the morning, I need to be inspired by myself, and then everything else will fall into place. 
--theglobeandmail.com, "Olympian Johnny Weir skates a fine line" by Jeanne Beker, February 26, 2010