Gail Simone Quotes

I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

My movies are always about the kooks and the outsiders.

I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't fit, coupled with huge ambitions.

I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.

Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

I've been kinda fascinated by misfits, outcasts, and downtrodden people. I've identified with them. 'Blade Runner' probably got me more work than any. It convinced some producers that I could play something other than a rural crazy, I guess.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.

Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.

'The Strange Thing About the Johnsons' is so disturbing but so good, because it went through a lot of things that you don't really see, ever.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

Outcasts always mourn.