On Friday I had a very severe attack of vertigo...If you've not had it, it's kinda like being on a cruise ship in a hurricane and also Sharknado at the same time.

--Instagram, video, May 2, 2022

That was so wrong for a free dance. It was like they were running from a very slow monster the whole way through.

--USA (TV channel), free dance, 2022 Olympics, February 13, 2022

(on the horror film inspired free dance of Georgia skaters' Maria Kazakova and Georgy Reviya)

Boyfriend Application: Scrubs pots. Needs to moisturize elbows. Sings off key. Forgets lyrics.  

--Twitter, November 21, 2021


Amendments to boyfriend application: 1. Sings hymns from Sister Act 2, off key 2. Adores Windex 3. Is thankful he can laugh at himself. Happy Thanksgiving America!
--Twitter. November 25, 2021

 

Blogger's note: Tweets were accompanied by videos demonstrating all the above assets. 

The thing that she's having trouble with, it's almost like an archer like a Katniss Everdeen, with her bow and arrow, trying to shoot the arrow without pulling all the way back, and getting all of that tautness in the bow, and then just trying to, you know, shoot across the ocean or something. 
--NBC, Skate America, Ladies Free Skate, November 26, 2017
(on Karen Chen's jumping problems)
 
Blogger's note: Katniss Everdeen is the main character in the Hunger Games books and movies.

@NetflixLifee tweeted: Name a canceled show that isn't on Netflix that you'd like to see get picked up.

'Be Good Johnny Weir' is a good one. It's like 'The Hunger Games' and 'Black Swan' mixed with the Olympics and OCD.
--Twitter, August 31, 2017

One of those long, hard days when you just end up smelling of Chanel number 5 and wookie.
--Twitter, January 6, 2017

We want to rule the world. We want to be Beyonce and Jay Z. Wait for our album. We want Emmys, we want Grammys, we want Oscars for our acting ability. Best documentary short. We're going to walk on the moon.
--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)

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/article127795589.html#storylink=cpykansascity.com

Funny Fact about Florida. Whenever we try to use a location for shooting, the initial reaction is, "you're not shooting a porno right?"
--Twitter, March 3, 2016
(while on a photoshoot with Tara Lipinski) 

Is it like a techno-remix of An American in Paris?...Is it with Jay-Z backup vocals?...'Cause I think an updated American in Paris would need that.
--NBC, U.S. Figure Skating Championship Preview Show, January 18, 2015 
(response to Tara Lipinski saying that ice dance partners Madison Cholk and Evan Bates' free dance costumes were appropriate for their "updated" version of An American in Paris)

There were cute little kids all over the country singing Frozen up and down my block, up and down my Chanel, up and down my telephone.
--NBC, A Toast to 2014!, December 31, 2014

It looks really, really pretty from the outside the figure skating world, but inside, I mean, bring it on Black Swan, that was nothing. Pulling out your fingernails...please!
--SirusXM, Just Jenny, October 22, 2014

[Q: Ellen’s Oscar selfie was a huge deal. Who would be in your perfect selfie?]

Johnny and Tara Lipinski: Bradley Cooper!

[Tara: Ellen]

Prince George

[Tara: And the little princess that’s coming!]

Elsa?

[Tara: No, but yes, Elsa.]

Beyoncé, certainly

[Tara: If we have Beyoncé then we have to have Jay Z]

I want Justin Timberlake to stand directly behind me.

[Tara: OK, OK]

Christina Aguilera…

[Tara: Henry VIII]

Marie Antoinette--and her pompadour…and a Hershey bar
--today.com, "Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski review 2014 (and try to predict what kind of king George will be)" by Lauren Sullivan, December 18, 2014

Bogger's note: Elsa is the princess/snow queen in the Disney movie Frozen.

[W]hen you think of Russia, you kind of have to think of it a little bit as...your grandma. She knows that there's something out there, but she's just a little bit behind.
--EPIX, To Russia with Love
(on the slow pace of cultural change in Russia)

Vladislav telling me a story about what happened to him directly to my face opened my eyes to what’s going on there, more so than any American activist that was dumping out bottles of Latvian vodka thinking it was Russian in the summer of 2013.
--thedailybeast.com, "'To Russia With Love': Can Johnny Weir Save Russia's Gays?" by Kevin Fallon, October 29, 2014
(how meeting with Vladislav Slavskiy, a young gay activist from Sochi, changed his perspective on Russia)

I wanted to hear from the activists who protested my speeches and the athletes who were going to Russia. I want people to remember why they were so upset last summer. We have the attention spans of fruit flies.
--outsports.com, "'To Russia With Love'--new doc film follows Johnny Weir" by Cyd Zeigler, October 27, 2014
(on "To Russia With Love" showing many viewpoints about boycotting the Sochi Olympics)

I never wanted to be normal. I never wanted to be the kid that kind of fell in line with the rest of the crowd.
--youtube.com, EPIX video, "To Russia with Love--Johnny and His Mom," uploaded September 21, 2014

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me, tonight. Too bad my Fievel is a royal douche.
--Twitter, July 20, 2014

I feel like Snow White is totally my beauty and skincare muse. Just sayin'
--Twitter, June 28, 2014

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'm so inspired by Alice in Wonderland and Bird Cages, La Cage aux Folles.
--NBC, Today, May 2, 2014
(about the hat he was wearing on the show that morning)