(26 quotes found)
“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”
“We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.”
Harry A. Blackmun
“A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.”
Robert Downey Jr.
“At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.”
Chris Noth
“want to become typecast as an eccentric.”
Johnny Depp
“There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.”
Christine Lavin
“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
Andre Maurois
“Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.”
Will Rogers
“Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.”
Crispin Glover
