Lee Daniels Quotes

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.

My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.