Quotes About Unconventional

I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person.

Normalcy is not interesting.

Normality is boring.

Comedy shouldn't be restrained under the belt of normality.

My family is normally 'Shameless' meets 'The Royle Family.'

I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

I'm not really making decisions that people normally expect.

I can play the harmonica with my nose.

KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.

I'm just not interested in the norm. The only example I can give you is I can't go to a hairdresser and talk about holidays. I just don't live in that world. It's not me.

Look for cars where people might not look, like shopping centres or notice boards as you can find some real gems that other people have not even thought of.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules.

I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

People think I'm nuts.

My family all thought I was a little nuts.

It drives people nuts that I take them to McDonald's all the time.

I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

On one occasion I had to sleep on a stretcher balanced on two kitchen chairs. It wasn't glamorous.