Marnie Stern Quotes

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I didn't want to do something typical.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

I get attracted to different things. I have a different take on everything. I like to do different things. I don't like the regular stuff.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

I've always said time and time again that I hate anything conventional.

I dance to the beat of a different drummer.

I'm probably going to forever be weird.

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

The opportunity to be bizarre - I am bizarre, aren't I? - is just so wonderful, isn't it?

The weirder the better for me.

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.

I always liked different things, rare things.

I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.

Normal is not a thing. No one's actually normal.

I feel like I'm not a traditional person.