Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

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

I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.

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.

My family all thought I was a little nuts.

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.

I'm the last of the mad ones.

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

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.

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.

People think I'm nuts.

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.

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.

That crack-brained harlequin and semi-lunatic, George Francis Train! He is as destitute of principle as he is of sense, and is fast gravitating toward a lunatic asylum. He may be of use in drawing an audience; but so would a kangaroo, a gorilla, or a hippopotamus.

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

I do weird things, and people watch.

I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

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

People call me all kinds of things, I guess, because I'm a little different. I'm never what they expect.

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

One should always be a little improbable.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

I'm worried he's going to ... do something crazy." "He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.