I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters. — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're… — Robin McLeavy Copy Share Image
My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy. — Sophie Kennedy Clark Copy Share Image
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks… — Louise Dahl-Wolfe Copy Share Image
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think,… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
Being in New York, and meeting really amazing, talented, eccentric, and bold people, and just feeling really excited about life, got me… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
I was interesting in discovering more about [Elizabeth Taylor], and I always tried to focus more on the woman than the legend… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing,… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give… — Lulu Copy Share Image
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“This last year she has been in danger of becoming an eccentric or else one of those persons who does not bother… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down.… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
I am admittedly eccentric and very silly and I laugh all day and it makes me laugh that people think that I'm… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth. — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living… — Riki Lindhome Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image