Ang Lee Quotes

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders. And, you know, I belong to so many places and belong to none of them at the same time, so there's this sense of displacement - I very much understand what it is to not fit in or belong somewhere.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

I guess I've lived my whole life as an outsider.

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does.

I don't belong much anywhere.

I've always been an outsider to some extent.

Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral. I was never really part of anything except the classroom. That's where I belonged.

America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.