Ellen Terry Quotes

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

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

No one was normal, not really.

I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.

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

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

I am not a normal man.

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

My family all thought I was a little nuts.

I was a real weird kid.

People don't know how to be outrageous anymore.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

Not everybody needs to be a weirdo.

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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