Max Brooks Quotes

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

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

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

I'm pretty convinced there's a chemical reality to who I am, regarding my brain, that makes me kind of a strange guy.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

I have a different mentality than most guys, I guess.

My state of being is just unique.

I feel like I'm just built differently.

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

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

I’ve often been told that I’m a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself. I feel like I’m extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that’s a bit out of proportion. I guess that’s why some people see me as strange.

I have never in all my life considered you other people.

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.

I always thought I was different.

I think of myself as a human being.

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.