Quotes About Eccentricity

There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.

It's my job to be ridiculous.

I wrote a lot of 'Driving on the Rim' by giving myself the gift of being just as eccentric as I felt like.

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

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.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

People keep giving me rings. But I think a small death ray might be more practical.

I'm going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.

Had it not been for Billing's eccentricity, short attention span and lack of application, his inventions may well have had proper success

I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they're actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don't need that question answered.

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visual way. And I never have come unravelled.

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

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I enjoy being different.

I like being different.

So yes, he could be funny. If you thought such things were funny. And the coffee had to be made with a specific number of beans. He could taste any errors in arithmetic.

Is he nuts? I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'. So that would be a yes.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.

Morao sam, naravno, da izigravam ?udljivog osobenjaka. Ali bogatašima to lepo pristaje.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.