Unusual Interests Quotes

I was a very strange child.

I like to play kind of the girls-that-eat-worms kind of character.

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.

I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

A diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome can be useful to help a person understand why they have had difficulties.

My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude.

I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.

As a little kid, I suppose I was a little weird.

I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social.

I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.

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.

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

I was never the class clown or put on shows at home. I never thought of acting as something I could do with my life. When I was a kid, I used to run around wrapped in toilet paper so I could be the Mummy. But that wasn't a sign that I was dreaming of being an actor. I was just an odd child.