Rachel Weisz Quotes

I love London, even though the weather's not great. I've travelled the world and I've lived in Paris, Germany, Los Angeles and New York but I love the parks, the theatre and the Britishness and the way that all these communities have integrated.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life.

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

There's nothing wrong with being a little unusual.

When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

I am weird.

One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country.

I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.

I'm a curious human being, and I love things that are a little bit off.

The weirder the better for me.

I'm a weirdo.

I think we go to our graves being a bit weird.