Jonathan Rhys Meyers credited as playing...
Brian Slade
- Brian Slade: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person... Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth.
- 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.
- Reporter: Uh, Brian! Why the make-up?
- Brian Slade: Why? Because rock and roll's a prostitute. It should be tarted up. Performed. The music is the mask, while I, in my chiffon and taff - well - varda the message.
- [after Curt Wild has exposed himself to an audience]
- Brian Slade: They despised him.
- Mandy Slade: Yeah. But when you're abused like that, you know you've touched the stars.
- Brian Slade: I know. I just... just wish it'd been me. Wish I'd thought of it.
- Mandy Slade: You will, love.
- Brian Slade: I should think that if people were to get the wrong impression of me, the one to which you so eloquently referred, it wouldn't be the wrong impression in the slightest.
- Reporter: Tell us, Brian, are the rumors true when they say you and Curt Wild have some sort of plans up your sleeve?
- Brian Slade: Oh, yes. Quite soon we actually plan to take over the world!
- Mod Girlfriend: So what are ya, mod or a rocker?
- Brian Slade: I'm six of one, half a dozen of the other, really.
- 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]
- Brian Slade: [lying in bed in a coke haze] Woman defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
- Mandy Slade: I lost my girlhood, true, but it was for you.