Alfie Allen Quotes

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.

My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

Live a life less ordinary.

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

I used to be frustrated about being called bohemian, but I don't really care now. If that's what you are, you should celebrate it.

I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

You come to realize people are not simple.

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.