Amanda Lear Quotes

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

All of my friends are oddities.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

I've always been attracted to weirdos.

I'd rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

It's Wierd not to be Wierd.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

I'm the last of the mad ones.

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.

No one was normal, not really.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.