Quotes About Eccentric

Garage-rock eccentric King Khan may be from Montreal, but his heart is almost a thousand miles away, throbbing from Atlanta to Castle City, Mont., until it hits cardiac arrest in Kalamazoo. Khan and His Shrines warn that this so-called 'Land of the Freak' is where only the strong survive, but it's a strength that can't be measured in muscle.

I had such a warped self-image. And I really think America thought I was an eccentric loudmouth. I thought I was demure.

Every night at 2:37 a.m., I walk outside my apartment complex, naked, and I stand in the middle of the road and scream. I scream loud enough to wake up my neighbors, long enough that my voice goes hoarse. One time, I almost got hit by

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

I'm like a mad cat and dog woman.

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me.

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.

I'm surprised how many commercials and sitcoms and movies have a need for, 'We just need something to come by the camera that's really weird.' They call Doug Jones.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I like being strange. I like being hyperbolic and surreal.

The place was horrible by daylight. The Chinese junk on the walls, the rug, the fussy lamp, the teakwood stuff, the sticky riot of colors, the totem pole, the flagon of ether and laudanum - all this in the daytime had a stealthy nastiness, like a fag party.

I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise.

Is despair wrong? Isn't it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.

After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

I'm very much down to earth - just not this earth.

Part of the corrupt charm of big cities is their acceptance of the wacky, weird, and outrageous within business as usual.

He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.

I love weird man, when you get to do something that you don't necessarily get to do in real life, play characters that are a little bit outlandish.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.