Eccentric Quotes

Normality is the new eccentric.

— Criss Jami

I do some eccentric dancing.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

— Mark Twain

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

— Paloma Faith

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

— Lorraine Hansberry

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

— Zaha Hadid

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man.

— Art Garfunkel

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

— Hayao Miyazaki

“You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.”

— Dean Koontz

I'm pretty eccentric and I enjoy things that people don't enjoy.

— Phaedra Parks

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

— Marian Seldes

I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

— Matthew Broderick

“You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy,”

— Mercedes Lackey

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

— Greg Behrendt

I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact.

— Thomas Mars

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive…

— Lynsey Addario

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I…

— Lady Gaga

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or…

— Tim Burton

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined…

— Louis Kronenberger

Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the…

— Prince Charles

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way…

— Michael J. Fox

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that,…

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through…

— Michael Koryta

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as…

— Bob Dylan

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my…

— Osamu Dazai

I'll be seen as eccentric, like Vic Reeves or Spike Milligan, which would be amazing. But I suppose I'm in this weird…

— Noel Fielding

Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do…

— Rex Harrison

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely…

— John Stuart Mill

I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city…

— John Waters

More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still…

— William Lashner

What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,…

— Gail Carriger

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still…

— Christina Baker Kline

Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the…

— Clifton Fadiman

The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest,…

— Allen Ginsberg

Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions…

— Laura Riding

“ Eccentrica ,” he says finally. “Oh God!” My face drops. “It’s that bad?” “ Cosa? ” He looks confused. “Bad?” “In…

— Lauren Henderson

“Yes, I advise wearing the silver gown that he sent,” he said plainly. “When one sends a gift, it is usually polite…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has…

— Vincent Van Gogh