I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not…

I like a lot of older rock 'n' roll artists, like legends like Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. They really influenced me to be…

— Princess Nokia

The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I…

— Will Rogers

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

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