Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

I like the idea of having a superordinary life.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

Live a life less ordinary.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

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.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!

Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

I've always had my wrist slapped for being myself.

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

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

I like the songs that are fun, that aren't gonna change the world - I've some of those - but even something like, 'You Should Be Here,' that was my chance to say, 'Look, this is me, too. I'm just a normal person.'

I decided to... just be normal.

I like the seamy underbelly of things.

I just try to be the same kid from New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, who is just lame and watches TV and Netflix.

I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.