Top 217 Gypsy Quotes & Sayings

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

I am such a gypsy.

The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.

I'm going to be homeless, I'm a gypsy.

Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” "I’m a Gypsy,” Cam replied matter-of-factly. “Of course I believe in ghosts.” “Only half Gypsy. Which led me to assume that the rest of you was at least marginally sane and rational.” “The other half is Irish,” Cam said a touch apologetically. “Christ,” St. Vincent said again, shaking his head as he strode away.

I spent three years researching American Rose, research that included connecting with Gypsy's sister, the late actress June Havoc (I was the last person to interview her) and Gypsy's son, and also spending countless hours immersed in Gypsy's expansive archives at the New York Public Library. I became obsessed with figuring out the person behind the persona.

I like the gypsy aspect of this business.

Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.

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

I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.

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

(Actually now I’m remembering that the goodbye chow isn’t spelled that way. It’s ciao or something weird like that. It’s Italian, right? But I’m not an Italian gypsy, I’m a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.)

I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.

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

I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long.

If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat.

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

The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen.

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

The Gypsy Heart tour is a dream come true. Not only because of all the beautiful cities I will get to visit, but all of the beautiful people I will get to meet. Gypsy Heart is not just a tour for me, but a mission to spread love.

I've always enjoyed being a Gypsy.

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!

The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.

I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.

It is very important that people understand how important flamenco is to the Gypsy community. There have been some amazing Gypsy artists. It's important that we give visibility to that, but at the same time people have to be fair and recognise that Paco de Lucia was the biggest guitar player in this style of music in the world and he wasn't Gypsy.

I've always been a bit of a gypsy.

It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often that writers have access to living primary source material; this was the only person who experienced life on the vaudeville circuit with Gypsy during the 1920s, and who saw her perform at Minsky's Burlesque in the 1930s. She knew things that no one else could ever possibly know.

Her sister [June Havoc] said the musical portrayed who Gypsy [Rose Lee] wanted to be before the burlesque thing happened she wanted to be this beautiful, romantic person with dreams. So Gypsy told the story of her life as she wished she'd lived it: embellishing, softening the edges, eliminating certain things altogether.

I think maybe because I moved a lot in my childhood, I'm a little bit of a gypsy by nature.

O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.

I'm a wandering gypsy.

The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

My center is the soul of a gypsy.

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.

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

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

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

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

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

There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer.

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.

One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship.

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

I've always been a gypsy.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

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

When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.

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

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

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

I am a gypsy, basically.

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

For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.

I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy. I wanted to live the gypsy life!

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

I'm from a Gypsy background!

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.