Seanan McGuire Quotes

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I live life what I consider to be normal.

Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from on another. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don't curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hate. That'll show them.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

If people choose to judge how you look, that's their situation. I didn't feel that it was a problem. I've played all kinds of parts. I've played glamorous, and unglamorous, and all kinds of people. People want to pigeon hole you, I think.

There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.

I'm sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the edges. I have a horror of the herd. There are many, many different sorts of people. A lot of people are fairly uninteresting. I want to play the interesting ones. The villains are always more interesting to portray. Shakespeare knew that.

People want you to be ordinary.

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

Viewed up close, nobody is normal.

You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that!