I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.
I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
Hello, freaky peoples!
You can never have enough nerds, freaks, and weirdos. You know what I'm sayin'?
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.
There are some loony people in this world!
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.
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.
Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
My favorite characters are people who think they're normal but they're not. I live in Baltimore, and it's full of people like that. I've also lived in New York, which is full of people who think they're crazy, but they're completely normal.
You can pick almost any field, and there's going to be weird people.
I thought I was the last American weirdo then I met Chris Chandler.
I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
I enjoy doing complicated or peculiar people.
The interesting thing about Laika is that it's very much an island of misfit toys. It's unusual people with strange talents and very unusual passions who have somehow found each other.
I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane
There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters.
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
I'm the last of the mad ones.
I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like bringing disparate kinds of creative people together to create some great work, even to share points of view on a new direction.
You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde Kostiff riding around on her bicycle with a huge hat. Everybody was doing things. I don't have any bad memories of that period.
It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.
