Eccentric Quotes

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
Maureen O'Hara

Family, Born, Remarkable

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Opinion, Once

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
Maynard James Keenan

Hurt, Artists, Insane

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

Time, Courage, Society

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Anton Chekhov

Money, Person, Vodka

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

Time, Few, Danger

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Doug Coupland

Fear, Actually, Pretend

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
Lady Gaga

Love, Crazy, Stuff

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
Lady Gaga

Music, Art, After

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.
Michael J. Fox

Kids, Maybe, Kid

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
Brian Eno

Lie, Done, Thought

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
Stephen Fry

Great, Respect, Books

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.
Katy Perry

Parents, Quirky

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
Dana Carvey

Family, Mean, Whole

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.
Bobby Heenan

Stupid, Rich, Poor

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
Katherine Heigl

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman

Business, Crazy, End

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
Al McGuire

Winning, Losing, Nuts

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust

Trust, Fear, Fashion

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

Two, Contrary, Sane

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
Gene Tierney

Around, Movie, Behavior

I have always idolized eccentric people.
Brandon Boyd

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.
Michael Sheen

Dresser, Suppose

People are quite frequently eccentric.
Jane Smiley

Quite, Frequently

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Marilyn Hacker

Women, Woman, Nothing

I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
Rainn Wilson

Great, Happy, Play

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.
Rupert Everett

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
Julie Walters

Time, Short, Old

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.
Demi Moore

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, which I do too.
Carol Vorderman

Happy, Once, She

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