My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.
Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.
I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'
You can pick almost any field, and there's going to be weird people.
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.
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.
... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?
I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
I enjoy doing complicated or peculiar people.
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
Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.
It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.
I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.
The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.
'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
