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Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Velvet Goldmine (1998)

Ewan McGregor: Curt Wild

Velvet Goldmine

Ewan McGregor credited as playing...

Curt Wild

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Quotes8

  • Curt Wild: We set out to change the world... ended up just changing ourselves.
  • Arthur Stuart: What's wrong with that?
  • Curt Wild: Nothing, if you don't look at the world.
  • Curt Wild: The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
  • Curt Wild: Excuse me, fellas, while I raise a glass to the loveliest man in Europe.
  • Brian Slade: And they tell you it's not natural.
  • Curt Wild: Make a wish, and see yourself on stage, inside out, a tangle of garlands in your hair. Course, you are pleasantly surprised.
  • Curt Wild: [sitting in cafe with Jack Fairy talking about Brian] I dunno... I dunno. It got too big I guess, too... got too... schizold, you know? I mean, he thought he fuckin' WAS Maxwell Demon in the end, you know? And Maxwell Demon, he thought he was God.
  • Arthur Stuart, Curt Wild: I will mangle your mind.
  • Curt Wild: Listen, a real artist creates beautiful things and puts nothing of his own life into them, OK?
  • Brian Slade: [meets Curt for first time at bar] I just wanted to say... I think your music is tops, really, smashing, the best of the lot.
  • Curt Wild: [Curt lifts head] Smashing, top hole, jolly f...
  • [Curt's head falls back and he passes out]

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