Quotes About Unconventionality

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

I don't go by brand names for directors.

Charlie found himself affecting the Emperor's formal speech patterns, as if somehow he had been transported to a royal court where a nobleman was distinguished by the crumbs in his beard and the royal guard were not above licking their balls.

That man is … odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Ubertino

And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out... and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

Woo the muse of the odd.

First I think, how weird is this? Sitting in the park holding hands with a complete stranger. Then I decided that there are a lot of weird things in the word, and this is not the very worst of them.

She always gave the impression of having accidentally wandered in from a mad scientist's conference, and felt rather desperate to get back.

And being different? That turned out to be the best part of all. I found that with a little creativity, and a lot of dedication, any difference can be turned into something amazing. Our differences are our superpowers

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.

I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

When in doubt, freak 'em out.

I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Maybe the mainstream needs someone like me.

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.

I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers—small bookshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafés. I'm happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and PizzaExpress, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are.

Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it.

the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci

Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy.

In his perversity, or his genius, or both