Eccentric Quotations

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'

My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

I am happy with the way it turned out. We did a lot of publicity for the film and of course Sanjay Dutt and Sanjay Gupta made this film technically very sound. It was also critically acclaimed and it was liked by a certain audience. I did hear a lot about him, about his eccentric ways while shooting. But I had a fabulous time working with him. He is so professional at his work; he is a treat to work with.

. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.

For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very few strips that I enjoyed for different reasons, but I don't think they were great. I don't think anything's come along since Charles Schulz - and I mean since 1950 - that I think rises above the professional or the eccentric into that realm of greatness.

He was so eccentric that he will not allow anybody else even to look at the glass casket.

Jeff is your typical eccentric genius. He locks himself away for months at a time with no human contact just to come up with great formulas for evaluating sports. It's fun to work with him, and his stuff is amazing.

I think I'm a straight actor who occasionally does musicals; most people think I'm an eccentric comedian. It's amazing how many years you can spend in this business just sorting out something as simple and basic as that.

We don't know if someone is overtly friendly, an eccentric or a predator.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

The real potential is getting more volume out of existing customers, not expanding the base. Attracting 21-year-olds that argument's been made for 50 years, but racing has always been an activity that appeals to older people. You need two things disposable time and disposable income. It'll always be a specialized, somewhat eccentric activity that appeals to people who like the intellectual challenge of doping out the races.

Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.

It was very eccentric to be living here in the only private house at the time.

I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very sociable creature.

San Francisco has always been a place apart, and a center of eccentric and independent thinkers. And what we started here, I don't think could have grown up anywhere else. You can create a social context in which culture can be created, but you can't directly create the culture.

'Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will.

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

Even when she was at her wackiest, most eccentric and, I think fair to say, offensive, the entire party didn't wear her as the Conservative party sometimes wears the fellows at the fringes of the party,

New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.

If you believe in predestination, then there is no reason to regret anything. If you believe in free-will, then there is no reason to acknowledge the prophecy. If you believe in both, then you are just looking for an easier way to perceive reality. If you don't believe in both, then you may have an eccentric way of understanding life.

In the large ancestral home, he lived in one room and the body was kept in another one. He had made it clear to us that the body should be buried only after his death. He was so eccentric that he would not allow anybody to even look at the glass casket in which the body was kept.

In this country, if you're eccentric and a billionaire you either kill a wrestler or run for president.

If you were to know us, my husband is extremely eccentric. He's never held a real job; he's an artist. He's had many years to be himself and never had to change or adapt to anyone. People find him very interesting. I think I'm eccentric too because I love the blend of classic with whimsy. That's what this farm is all about now.

He's so eccentric -- physically, and he's so funny.

Because Don Slater was here, and the rest of these guys, Harry Hay, and other, let us say eccentric people were here and were willing to bet their all on an impossible long shot.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)