Frank Gehry Quotes

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

I'm always connecting with what society would label the outcasts and the weirdos and the lost souls.

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.

For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

I was never part of the crowd.

To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it's like to feel like you're not accepted, and you're different, and somehow you're weird.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

I've never really fit in.

I tried so many times to fit in but I could never ever fit in. I was always like, an outcast.

For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had nowhere to go, so we went to shows.

I am not afraid of being a pariah.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

It kind of feels cool to be the outsider.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.