Unconventional Behaviour Quotes

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress.

I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.'

I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people don't forget.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

There was definitely a wild side to me that couldn't run free growing up in England.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

I am really influenced by normal, simple, everyday life and people, like the Biji and Dolly in 'Vicky Donor,' who used to drink and say whatever they felt like. These characters were so lively. I have seen these people around me.

That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.

You kill the emotion by standardising the behaviours on court. I want authenticity. I want people to be free.

I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

As women, we're always supposed to be catty, or too cute to dance. And it sucks.

From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.

If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting.

I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.

A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.