Deborah Ellis Quotes

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

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

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

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

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.

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

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

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.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

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 was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.

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

To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

I'm always connecting with what society would label the outcasts and the weirdos and the lost souls.

You almost have to force yourself to stay in a vacuum to become different - if you really want to be different.

If you feel like a weirdo, it's okay because weirdos rule the world.

If you want to be successful at being yourself, you’re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.