Unconventional Personality Quotes

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

The No. 1 thing I hear from people when I meet them in the airport is, 'Oh my gosh, you're just like you are on TV.' Well, I'm not an actor. I don't think anyone could figure out how to be this weird.

My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.

I'm weird. Everyone says so.

Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

My father was an odd stick. He was a member of MENSA and he was a uniformed yard cop for the Harvard police.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that.

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

When I first met Adèle I was like, ‘Wow, this girl has a strong character!’ She has something very free about her. I’m not used to it. Some actresses are too self-aware, they strike a pose. Adèle is a force of nature.

There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. Some of the top musicians are quirky aren't they, to say the least. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird.

Marshall Plumlee. One of the weirdest/greatest guys I've met.

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.