Quotes About Outsiders

I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just the part that I came from. They really don't get outsiders.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.

I will always make films that champion outsiders, because I still feel like one, even though I'm now governor of the documentary branch of the Academy.

The 'X-Men' stories are the stories of outsiders: people who don't fit into normal society and are ostracised; it's a metaphor for gender, race, or sexual orientation.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

My movies are always about the kooks and the outsiders.

Maybe I am not destined to be part of movies. I feel that one needs to be connected in Bollywood, because, for outsiders, if the first film doesn't work, no one gives them a second chance.

In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends.

We have jobs in Maharashtra but outsiders are getting them. They are also getting admission in educational institutions depriving our children of their rights.

I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.

I'm definitely drawn to stories about outsiders. Feeling like that myself as a gay black man, I often seek to give a voice to those in the world who don't have one.

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

I always play outsiders. I think I'm carrying a lot of those characters and I wonder if I play them because those characters need an extra element of thought to bring them to life.

Finish people have not been very successful at all. We are not doing very well in sport. We are outsiders in the world.

One place that I have very strong memories of is the Congo. That's somewhere I've been to four times. It's not a place where normally outsiders go, which is what makes it very special.

There are many outsiders in Bollywood and you'll find people from different parts of the world and cultures coming together.

In towns, the nomads remain outsiders for a while. They become a class divorced from their occupation as herders. They are called drokpa in an undertone that indicates an unsophisticated, uneducated person, a person still in progress. In their own villages they are known to everyone for their horsemanship, their ability to round cattle, their weaving skills, for being a good child to their parents, or simply for their ability to make good yogurt and dried cheese.

The intrusion of outsiders in the day-to-day lives of Africans was the sort of thing I had always criticized.

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.