Alan Ball Quotes

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

You can never have enough nerds, freaks, and weirdos. You know what I'm sayin'?

I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.

I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't fit, coupled with huge ambitions.

The interesting thing about Laika is that it's very much an island of misfit toys. It's unusual people with strange talents and very unusual passions who have somehow found each other.

My movies are always about the kooks and the outsiders.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

'Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I always liked strange characters.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.

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

That is who my people are - the oddballs, the rebels, and the geeks. That's what I am, so it's what I naturally feel connected to.

I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

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'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.

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the edges. I have a horror of the herd. There are many, many different sorts of people. A lot of people are fairly uninteresting. I want to play the interesting ones. The villains are always more interesting to portray. Shakespeare knew that.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.