Bohemian Rhapsody Quotes

If any of you fuss about it or frown about it, or worst of all, if you bore me with your sympathy, that's just seconds wasted. Seconds that could be used making music, which is all I want to do with the time I have left. I don't have time to be anybody's victim, AIDS poster boy or cautionary tale. No, I decide who I am. I'm going to be what I was born to be: a performer that gives the people what they want: a touch of the heavens! Freddie fucking Mercury.

Your life is going to be very difficult.

It's America. They're Puritans in public, perverts in private.

You know when you know you've gone rotten? Really rotten? Fruit flies. Dirty little fruit flies. Coming to feast on what's left.

Ray Foster : It goes on forever, six bloody minutes!
Freddie Mercury : I pity your wife if you think six minutes is forever.

: Formulas are a complete and utter waste of time.

I have four extra incisors.

I went to Munich. I hired a bunch of guys, I told them exactly what to do and the problem was, they did it. No push-back from Roger, none of Brian's re-writes, none of John's funny looks. I need you, and you need me.

I love the way you move on stage. The whole room belongs to you. Don't you see what you can be?

You've been burning the candle at both ends, Freddie.

Not the coffee machine!

I'm not the leader of Queen, I'm only the lead singer.

Who even is Galileo?

My balls are in my chest.

Good thoughts, good words, good deeds. Just like you taught me, papa.

The human condition requires a bit of anesthesia.

John Reid : So, tell me. What makes Queen any different from all of the other wannabe rockstars I meet?
Freddie Mercury : Tell you what it is, Mr. Reid. Now we're four misfits who don't belong together, we're playing for the other misfits. They're the outcasts, right at the back of the room. We're pretty sure they don't belong either. We belong to them.

No one will play us on the radio. We need to get experimental.

Does anyone have questions about the music?

Roger Taylor : What are you doing later?
Kashmira Bulsara : Homework.

Roger Taylor : Your phones off the hook.
Roger Taylor : This is Crystal.
Cheryl : CHERYL!
Roger Taylor : Oh, that's right. My mistake.

How much do you think we can get for this van?

You will forever be known as the man who lost Queen.

Reporter 2 : Freddie, uh, your teeth! Why don't you get your teeth fixed?
Freddie Mercury : I live in Britain. I don't want to stand out.

Mmm. They say money can't buy happiness, darlings! But it does allow you to give it away!

Happy birthday, Mr Mercury...

Bomi Bulsara : So now the family name is not good enough for you.
Freddie Mercury : I've changed it legally. No going back.

We're family. We believe in each other. That's everything.

I'm just a musical prostitute.

Jim Beach : They just need a bit of time.
Freddie Mercury : What if I don't have time?

Young Man at Clinic : Ay-oh?
Freddie Mercury : Ay-oh.

We can be. We believe in each other... that's everything. We are going to do great things. It's an experience - love, tragedy, joy... it's something that people will feel belongs to them.

Roger, there's only room in this band for one hysterical queen.