A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
Henry Steele Commager
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It`s so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
I think what eccentricity can represent in terms of the fear it engenders is a challenge to what is already considered right or good by people who have invested a certain amount into their life and livelihood that is not eccentric, but centric. If there`s...
Crispin Glover
[describing to David Letterman her eccentric family`s devotion to their patriarch`s invention of the Delany flush valve] My grandfather used to say, "It may be shit to you, but it`s our bread and butter."
Dana Delany
People think that I`m too eccentric, so it`s never going to work. I`ve always loved pop and leftfield music. My record company thought that Debut wasn`t going to sell. I said: I don`t care. I really have to do this or I`ll go insane. You`ve just got to do...
Bjork Guomundsdottir
[on Jack Nicholson] He`s eccentric but very interesting. A unique kind of approach. He shines because he`s himself a rather interesting eccentric. A very fascinating actor.
George C. Scott
[on Jack Nicholson] He`s eccentric but very interesting. A unique kind of approach. He shines because he`s himself a rather interesting eccentric. A very fascinating actor.
George C. Scott
(On supporting roles) "I think you`re given more license to have fun, in a way. You`re supposed to be more vivid, your job is to be more eccentric. I think I just like it better. There`s something about working in a smaller space that I`m more temperament...
Paul Giamatti
[On being called eccentric] Eccentric doesn`t bother me. "Eccentric" being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn`t follow the lines - that`s okay.
Crispin Glover
[On being called eccentric] Eccentric doesn`t bother me. "Eccentric" being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn`t follow the lines - that`s okay.
Crispin Glover
[On being called eccentric] Eccentric doesn`t bother me. "Eccentric" being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn`t follow the lines - that`s okay.
Crispin Glover
When American TV and movies call for a twist of limey in their cocktail, it`s usually a character they`re after - supervillain, emotionally constipated academic, effete eccentric, that kind of thing.
Stephen Fry
I am fully aware of the giant risk I`m taking. Being as eccentric as my mind will let me and then hearing people`s responses. This requires an incredible amount of pain. Everyone around me, 98%, at some point doubted.
M. Shyamalan
A lot of my peer group think I`m an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle or something somewhere on my body. That`s okay.
Robert Downey Jr.
[On Laurence Olivier after the death of the only acting peer of the realm]: "Olivier made me laugh more as an actor (in eccentric comedy parts) more than anyone else. In my case, I love him in comedy and am not always sure about him in tragedy.
Alec Guinness
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
Suzanne Fields
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from ...
Andrei Denisov
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where t...
Ellen Terry
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man`s brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
Franz Schubert
Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.
Liv Tyler
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
Julie Walters
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.
William Jackson
I started looking at it, ... and I thought, `Oh my God, this is like Gertrude Stein wrote this book.` It`s so funny and so eccentric. The imagery was so clear that I knew immediately that I was going to illustrate it.
Ashley Rutledge
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I`d been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.
Nick Lowe
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,
Peter Kent
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It`s so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
Henry Steele Commager
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