Eccentric Quotes · Page 6

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Lee Ryan

I shouldn't be called eccentric. I should be called a normal guy.

— Chris Eubank Sr

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

— Andrew Hill

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

— Jose Mujica

“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.”

— Terry Pratchett

“If they were rich, they'd be described as eccentric rather than mentally ill.”

— Jack Heath

“wondering if this was how I was going to end up: eccentric and alone.”

— Pauline Wiles

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

— Bobby Heenan

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

— Crispin Glover

“Lady Bracknell: “He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and…

— Oscar Wilde

I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It's kind of like I…

— Julia Fox

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the…

— Thomas Keneally

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

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead…

— Norman Friedman

“[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that’s eccentricity, then I’m eccentric.”

— Mason Currey

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through…

— Michael Koryta

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as…

— Bob Dylan

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my…

— Osamu Dazai

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely…

— John Stuart Mill

Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do…

— Rex Harrison

More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still…

— William Lashner

I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city…

— John Waters

“Become the artist who designs your own life. While others look at life’s straight lines—their height and depth and width—bend the lines…

— Franklyn James

Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

— Bret Lott

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

— Demi Moore

“Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.”

— Jessica Fortunato

“Are you nuts?” I kept my eyes on the dog when I said, “I prefer the term eccentric.”

— Barbra Annino

“Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.”

— Fennel Hudson

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Cheyenne Jackson

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

— Elizabeth McGovern

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

— Nicolas Cage

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.

— Sandrine Bonnaire

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

— Daniel Radcliffe

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Jim Gaffigan

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

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

— Lady Gaga

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

— Thelonious Monk