Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

— Maynard James Keenan

He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more…

— Michael Cunningham

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

— Maira Kalman

“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”

— Anonymous

It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think,…

— John C. Reilly

Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow…

— Jack Kerouac

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…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Eccentric is a difficult word because it's come to mean crazy. Avant-garde would be better. Eccentric is not "centric" in terms of having a…

— Daphne Guinness

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might…

— Potter Stewart

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never…

— Adrian Lyne

I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.

— Marian Seldes

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of…

— Ellen Terry

“You can drink your soup ice-cold, but it's no longer soup; you can do eccentric things in life, but if you haven't been able…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is…

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Terry Pratchett