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" I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA. "
Johnny Weir
Whole
Afraid
Closet
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" To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough. "
Johnny Weir
Too Much
Sense
Never
" There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment. "
Johnny Weir
Will
Good
Memory
" I've lived my whole life exactly the way I've wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn't matter to me. They're all things I'm born with. "
Johnny Weir
White
Born
Gay
" Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that. "
Johnny Weir
Skating
Audience
Very
" I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else. "
Johnny Weir
Else
Style
Say
" I never ever wanted to change my sport... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I'd made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it. "
Johnny Weir
Feeling
Worth
Up
" I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day. "
Johnny Weir
Proud
Cooking
Happy
" Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become. "
Johnny Weir
Eyes
Heart
Good
" Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother. "
Johnny Weir
Mother
Finding
Important
" I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is. "
Johnny Weir
See
I Am
You
" I hate summer, to be honest. I hate dressing. I hate the heat. I hate sweaty people getting aggressively close to you when you're walking down the street. "
Johnny Weir
People
You
Walking
" I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that. "
Johnny Weir
Love
Model
Would
" I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it. "
Johnny Weir
Control
You
Love
" Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in. "
Johnny Weir
Never
Saying
God
" I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I'm used to. "
Johnny Weir
Career
Loud
Mouth
" The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete. "
Johnny Weir
Sacrifice
You
Life
" The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place. "
Johnny Weir
Yourself
Me
Myself
" I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling. "
Johnny Weir
Ice
Love
People
" I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth. "
Johnny Weir
Love
Work
Games
" Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect. "
Johnny Weir
Time
Nobody
Perfect
" I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am. "
Johnny Weir
Tiger
Great
I Am
" I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different. "
Johnny Weir
Success
Hope
Myself
" I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me. "
Johnny Weir
Love
Me
Love Me
" I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day. "
Johnny Weir
Strong
Me
Cool
" Fashion is something that I want to be involved with for a long time, and I want to show that I can give people what they want while still keeping my pizzazz and my razzle-dazzle. "
Johnny Weir
People
Time
Long Time
" I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular. "
Johnny Weir
Myself
Think
Short
" I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence. "
Johnny Weir
Influence
Music
Power
" I hope that more children have the same opportunities as me, with the same parents as me, that let me be an individual, who gave me freedom, and taught me to believe in myself before anyone else would believe in me. "
Johnny Weir
Myself
Hope
Children
" No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.' "
Johnny Weir
Words
Be Happy
Happy
" I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it. "
Johnny Weir
Just
Athlete
Should