Quotes About Strangeness

Il troppo mi urta - è così insolito. Mi sentivo a disagio, spaesata - come una bacca di fratta montana trapiantata sulla strada. E non avevo fame. Allora capii che la fame è un istinto di chi guarda le vetrine dal di fuori. L'entrare, la disperde.

my quirks had gone beyond eccentricity, past the warm waters of weird to those cold, deep patches of sea where people lose their lives.

I'm the nut!

I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.

The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

Celebrity is very weird.

I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.

With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted.

I definitely do weird things every show.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.

I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.

I've always been attracted to weirdos.

I was a teenager with a lot of strangeness in me that I didn't know how to express. I was trying hard on the outside to be very normal and fit in, but inside I was a big weirdo. Thank God that little weirdo persisted, otherwise I would be so sad.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a fool in love and there's nothing not alien about that.

One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking.