Quotes About Eccentricity

It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people had been born. It's nothing but damned eccentricity to want to be dry he would say. I've been wet more than half my life and never been a whit the worse for it.

I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

What's one more crazy thing in the midst of all this weirdness?

It's not your uncle Harvey again, is it?" I said. "The one who thinks he's a giant rabbit?

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!

Sendak is in search of what he calls a yummy death. William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. A happy death, says Sendak. It can be done. He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

They gaped as if they'd never seen a ridiculously handsome bleeding man in a turquoise waistcoat fall through a rubbish hole and then save himself with a grappling hook before. What DID they do for fun in New Eden?

attraction to and tolerance for the bizarre, other-centeredness that results in abandonment of self

You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy

You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy," Dominik

As he trilled, as he prattled, as he indulged in his spontaneous 'conceits', as he gestured, fop-like and grotesque, his magnified eyes skidding to and fro behind the lenses of his glasses, like soap at the bottom of a bath, his brain was often other-where, and these days it was well occupied.

podía calcular los movimientos de los cuerpos celestiales, pero no la locura de la gente». Newton

The lunatic who believes he is a poached egg, is to be condemned solely on the ground that he is in a minority. Or rather, since we must not assume democracy, on the ground that the government disagrees with him.

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own

We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?

I was starting to think of her as the "Goth Van Gogh" on a good day or "Vampira" on a bad one. She took a little getting used to.