Jenny Lawson Quotes

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

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

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

I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.

My eccentricity became direction.

I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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.

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've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you sort of gain your inhibitions later.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.