Lynn Coady Quotes

... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

If you do things out of time you're weird.

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

You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who's called normal? What's normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That's fun to play.

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

People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

Where's your will to be weird?

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.

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

People think I'm nuts.

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

Anybody who knows me has said, 'I had a Denis O'Hare moment.' I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street.

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.

I've been told I stand out, but usually it's like, 'Sasha, you kind of look crazy,' or 'What are you doing?'

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

One should always be a little improbable.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for