Quotes About Eccentricity

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider.

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

Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

Favorite food? Blues (speed). Miscellaneous likes? Birds. Professional ambition? To smash one hundred drum kits. Personal ambition? To stay young forever. There you have it, the world of Keith Moon effectively encapsulated in a few choice words. Straightforward hedonistic pleasures, cheerfully destructive tendencies, and an unattainable goal, except in the words that Townshend had just written and which Moon alone would live up/down to: 'Hope I die before I get old.

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real I to reveal itself.

An intense life needs a touch of madness.

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

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.

Art lovers ought to be crazy.That's how they see the fun side of everything.

He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.

In some other state, a person might say to himself, I believe I shall pose as Superman by the side of the road! But in Florida, that person is also going to say, But first, I shall remove my pants!

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

Decker shook his head and stood. "It goes beyond mere eccentricity. She also has a run-down farmhouse and a crappy car that she drives to work and on her rounds as the proverbial Good Samaritan." "What does that tell you?" "If you were a spy and had

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.