Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bayard Taylor

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

We don't know if someone is overtly friendly, an eccentric or a predator.

I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'

Tony Kaye

So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room.

Adrian McKinty

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

Fanny Burney

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

I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

Sylvester McCoy

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

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

Crispin Glover

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

Daniel Radcliffe

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

Will Rogers

Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

Hayao Miyazaki

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

My eccentricity became direction.

Gene Tierney

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

Jess Glynne

I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very sociable creature.

It was very eccentric to be living here in the only private house at the time.

Even when she was at her wackiest, most eccentric and, I think fair to say, offensive, the entire party didn't wear her as the Conservative party sometimes wears the fellows at the fringes of the party,

For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

Chris Noth

New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.

Eva Green

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

Jules Verne

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Maira Kalman

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

Honore de Balzac

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

Ross Perot

In this country, if you're eccentric and a billionaire you either kill a wrestler or run for president.

Alan Bennett

He's so eccentric -- physically, and he's so funny.

Katherine Heigl

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

Michael Cunningham

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

Mark Twain

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Paloma Faith

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

Michael Sheen

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

Thelonious Monk

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.