Quotes About Eccentricity

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

He's carrying around things that I can never know about, just like I am, just like we all are. I'm not sure what these things of his are, but I can guess. Dusty's sensitive, he's honest. He's a little eccentric. He's almost certainly gay, but I doubt even he knows it. Like Libby, he's not going to pretend to be someone he's not, and he's not afraid to be different. But other kids won't always like that.

Chris snorts. "Never nude. Did you know that's a real thing? Some people call themselves never-nudes and they wear clothes at all times, even in the shower. Like, jean shorts.

A lot of professionals are crackpots.

awe-inspiring shit we put on shelves." These included live waxworms, a five-pound gummi bear, a diver's speargun, a book titled Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women, a butt plug attached to a plush foxtail,

She couldn't decide if he was a bit mad or if the world moved too slowly for him. Perhaps a little of both.

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

Don't be daft, lad. I've worked with more loonies than you've had hot dinners. And I don't just mean the offenders.

The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.

I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.

I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

My eccentricity became direction.

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

His art is eccentricity, his aimHow not to hit the mark he seems to aim at,His passion how to avoid the obvious,His technique how to vary the avoidance.The others throw to be comprehended. HeThrows to be a moment misunderstood.

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.