Jeremy Irons Quotes

I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

If you're different, or if you think something about you is just weird and out of the ordinary, I just think that's so dope.

You can pick almost any field, and there's going to be weird people.

I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

When I was growing up, you had to conform and do the same thing that everyone else was doing. I would just go home and make music and be able to make myself happy, but I know that's more of a challenge for some people.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.

In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

The most interesting people are never perfect.

If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.