Outsider Quotes

I'm an outsider, I guess.

— William Klein

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“I'm a freak with power.”

— Sherman Alexie

I always felt an outsider.

— J. K. Rowling

It's good to be an outsider.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I'm an outsider.

— Jack Levine

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

— Siobhan Fahey

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

— Robert Henri

I'd always been interested in the idea of the outsider.

— Jim Kerr

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

— Alex Borstein

I felt like an outsider in middle school. Horrible.

— Amine

I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.

— Paul Rhys

I think I will always feel like an outsider.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

— Ethel Waters

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

— Karen Russell

I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.

— Ayanna Pressley

“I was an outsider who seemed more interested in attacking what was being taught than learning from it.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

— Michael Burry

I just never felt like I belonged anywhere. I always had a stick with a little knapsack attached.

— Michelle Rodriguez

From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.

— Lauren Tom

In Geneva, I was seen as an outsider. In the U.S., I was considered Eurotrash. And in London, I'm seen as an…

— Danny Rimer

So tell me, as an outsider, what do you think of the human race?

— Anonymous

“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods…

— Sol Luckman

Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that.

— Ronny Chieng

“In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence…

— Kate Milford

I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things…

— Riz Ahmed

“People will still try to classify me by the thing that makes me an outsider. They want, ironically, the thing I don’t…

— Brandon Sanderson

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I…

— Joel Kinnaman

“Morrison took being an outsider one step further. He said, in effect, 'That's okay, we LIKE it here. It hurts and it's…

— Danny Sugarman

Ben Carson has what Iowa caucus-goers favor - the soft touch and outsider status, and no fear of going after Obamacare and…

— Margaret Hoover

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those…

— Anonymous

“We were outsider, yes, but insiders to a hard-won truth: giving your life away is the only way to truly find it.…

— Diana Oestreich

“It taught me that it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider.…

— Trevor Noah

You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut…

— El-P

Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her new setting and laying it all…

— Elvis Mitchell

Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate,…

— John Updike

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione…

— Ira Glass

I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell…

— Howie Mandel

I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.

— Shaun King

However popular you are, you still feel like an outsider.

— Noma Dumezweni