Outsider Quotes · Page 6

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is…

— Jimmy Connors

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

— Shirley Manson

I always felt that I was never acknowledged for a lot of things - award shows, all of that.

— Ginuwine

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

— Ethan Embry

I never quite fit in - at least, from my own perspective, you know.

— Goldie Hawn

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

— Hiro Murai

Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.

— Nimrat Kaur

My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at…

— Joe Morton

I am a mom from Michigan. I am an outsider. And I am going to do everything I can to make sure…

— Ronna McDaniel

“But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside…

— Orson Scott Card

It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

No matter what you eventually become - free, empowered - the lingering feeling of 'once an outsider, always an outsider' is very…

— Christine and the Queens

When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some…

— Audre Lorde

As an outsider, it is not like you have a support system of friends and family who will make something to sort…

— Kunal Kapoor

“It taught me that it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider.…

— Trevor Noah

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione…

— Ira Glass

I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell…

— Howie Mandel

Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate,…

— John Updike

I totally understood the headlines when I quit the European Tour, how I turned my back on my home tour and how…

— Paul Casey

As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent…

— Laurence Boldt

Who am I? I am the outsider looking in. I am the one sitting in the corner observing everything. I am the…

— Suzie Pierce

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English…

— Allegra Huston

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

— Michael Patrick King

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

— Marcel Dzama

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

— Ang Lee

People oftentimes refer to me as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' So, I'm Mr. Johnson. I'm a complete outsider.

— Ron Johnson

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

— Angelina Jolie

To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.

— Lawrence Wright

“outsider. You do what you want, say what you want, and move on when you’ve worn out your welcome.”

— Sophia Amoruso

I've always said that I don't necessarily feel stereotypically Greek.

— Jamie Demetriou

“Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.”

— Anonymous

I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at…

— Andrew Haigh

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

— David LaChapelle

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

— Chirlane McCray

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

— Ally Carter

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an…

— Amanda Palmer

I'm an immigrant, and I think being an outsider in your home is something that I really relate to.

— Hiro Murai