I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric…

“this single room. At the center of it all, was a small man in a white lab coat. He also had thick, round glasses…

— Robloxia Kid

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

— Helen Mirren

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

— Derek Walcott

I had a fabulous teacher, my headmistress's husband, who taught Shakespeare for A-level, and then I found this person called William Shakespeare and a…

— Geraldine James

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