Eccentric Quotes

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything.

I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.

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.

For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)

It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination.

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

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.