Outsiders Quotes · Page 9

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

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel…

— Zooey Deschanel

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the…

— Connie Nielsen

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person,…

— Howard W. French

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's…

— Nick Cave

Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

— Christiane Amanpour

Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

I know is that the response [for Difficult People ] has been really great. I think it's for smart people. I think…

— Billy Eichner

I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow…

— Eric Kripke

I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're…

— El-P

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of…

— Nick Cave

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're…

— Rita Mae Brown

It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been…

— Ally Carter

I feel like an outsider sometimes. Sometimes being more public makes me feel uncomfortable. I'll have people asking me for autographs in…

— Apichatpong Weerasethakul

One of the terrible things about George W. Bush Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news. The neoconservatives are a…

— Seymour Hersh

Stick on this that Donald Trump as the outsider doesn't know what's going on. That the inside-the-Beltway culture is special and it's…

— Rush Limbaugh

Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider…

— David Lang

I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an…

— Halsey

The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect…

— Mark Millar

Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims…

— George Carlin

A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between…

— Catherynne M. Valente

There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders.…

— Hamilton Morris

I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

— Ashton Kutcher

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to…

— John Irving

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

— Angelina Jolie

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I…

— Madonna Ciccone

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our…

— Ethel Waters

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

— David Suchet

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

— Jackie Kennedy

“Eternity will not cause our memories to fade, it will force our hearts to accept the past.”

— Ross Caligiuri

The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is…

— Robert A. Agresta

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms…

— Chris Bauer

“To struggle against the weight of sleep as reality eclipses the moon of your dreams is the purest sign of true love.”

— Ross Caligiuri

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

— Audre Lorde

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market…

— Clayton Christensen

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

— John P. Kotter

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm…

— Willem Dafoe

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

— Diane Abbott