Top 70 Gypsy Quotes

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

My favorite song as a boy was definitely ‘Downtown’ recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of ‘Gypsy’; I played my mother’s cast recordings until there was no vinyl left.

I’m the gypsy man. I don’t really live anywhere. I’ve got a roof over my head in Los Angeles, and I’ve got a lot of friends everywhere.

I like the pirate and gypsy vibe. That’s always been my thing.

But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.

I love being a gypsy. Home is between New York and California.

It’s quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it’s nice to go home.

I’m from a Gypsy background!

I was considered the luckiest of all the female gypsies since I landed the job as social secretary to Ambassador and Mrs. David Bruce at the American Embassy.

As a model, you’re such a gypsy, so that ‘home’ element is kind of taken from you.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany – I’ve been a bit of a gypsy.

Every June, Gypsies come in caravans from all over Europe to honor Django Reinhardt at a festival in Samois-sur-Seine. When I was little, I started hanging out with them. They fascinated me – they really, literally, live in the moment. They take every day as if it’s their last.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.

As a Jew, there’s a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homosexuals who died in the Holocaust, too. It’s amazing that people allowed this slaughter to take place. There’s a need to make these films and reiterate it happened.

I am a gypsy. I havent’ had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person – I just throw everything in a bag and I’m good to go.

I’ve lived a gypsy life and wouldn’t know any other way to live.

I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer against the skin. Extra-long-sleeved T-shirts are a lifesaver for me. I wear them either underneath a shirt with the sleeve pulled out of the cuff, or underneath gypsy tops, tunic tops and waistcoats.

My family is basically Gypsies – for real.

I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.

I like the gypsy aspect of this business.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

The first time I encountered Stephen Sondheim was like everyone else: through snatches of old songs people performed in drama school, through ‘Send in the Clowns,’ which everyone knew. I wasn’t aware at the time that he was the writing force behind ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Gypsy.’

I’ll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I’ll always help out one of my own.

I’ve been doing a lot of work with my brilliant trainer Pat Manocchia, who has a gym called La Palestra. He’s trained me for every big show I’ve done, every demanding 8-show week role that requires stamina, like ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and ‘Gypsy.’

I enjoy some nights in the studio. I’m not the greatest person in an enclosed space; I’m a live player by birth – like a gypsy folk player, I just sit in the corner and play.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family – Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma – because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

The thing is, I’m a gypsy; I love travelling!

People working in films are somewhat like gypsies: we move from set to set and spent weeks, sometimes even longer working while shooting a film. Right from the spot boys to the make-up guys and cast and crew, we become a kind of family.

Never to forget the Holocaust was not only against Jews. It was mostly against Jews but it was also against homosexuals, gypsies and, let’s not forget, people with disability.

I’m very much into the Gypsy Kings. It’s rumba and very festive, very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing about love from happy people.

I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.

Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan.

Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can’t help but be a bit of a gypsy as an adult. I get fidgety if I’m in one place for longer than three months.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

I’m like a gypsy. I’ve got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I’m working on a place in Colombia. I like the fact that painting is portable – and I’ve wanted my entire life to be able to see the world, to respond to it, and make that my life’s work.

I don’t consider ‘American Rose’ to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy’s tumultuous life – it’s ‘Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.’

I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood – not on stage but by doing the movies of ‘Chicago’ and ‘Hairspray’ and also musicals on TV. We did Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Gypsy’ and ‘Annie.’ Even ‘Smash’ was like doing theater.

I was definitely in acting class in school, but I was never the princess of the play. I will always remember: they always gave me the part of the gypsy or the old man in the corner.

My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gypsies. But I like any kind of music as long as it’s good music.

Besides, I’m a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

I’ve always seen myself as one of those ‘show people.’ My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

The soundtrack for ‘Hemlock Grove’ got me into all this goth folk gypsy music like the Dead Brothers.

I’m a gypsy at heart. I have a little triangle where I tend to go, which is between Sydney, Los Angeles, and London, and I’m happy with that at the moment.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

The funny thing is that I’ve known since I was 7 years old that I was never going to have kids. I always imagined myself as this worldly, traveling gypsy lady.

I’m kind of a gypsy, so I love living out of a suitcase and going from place to place meeting people.

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father’s side – a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I’ve often been cast in exotic roles – Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

I’ve played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

I’ve always enjoyed being a Gypsy.

I am so romantic about Gypsies. They’re not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

I don’t think I’ve done anything quite like ‘Gypsy’ before. Especially the honest way that it is written.

I’m a bit of a wandering gypsy on the pitch.

The Italian side of my family were gypsies, and we are little hard so-and-sos.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

My father’s family can be traced back to 1400. I’ve been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.

I am a gypsy, in a way. It’s a condition of my profession.

A few years ago, I found out that there’s a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother’s side. I’m wild in that way – I’ve been brought up to do my own thing.

I learned mainly by listening to Andres Segovia and that was a great inspiration. And also the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up ‘The Virgin and the Gypsy,’ D.H. Lawrence’s novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.