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Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.
I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'
The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.
I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It's kind of like I was an orphan.
I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
I had such a warped self-image. And I really think America thought I was an eccentric loudmouth. I thought I was demure.
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.
I really admire Vivienne Westwood because she always done her own thing. She is eccentric but really great at the same time.
Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.
But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.
You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.
I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.
We had such a strange upbringing with such eccentric parents and so we were often put in situations where finding what was funny was a survival thing.
I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.
I've always been obsessed by shoes as one of the main accessory of my outfit, from the classic styles to the more eccentric and of every range of price.
As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'
I had a lot of funky things as a kid. I had dinosaurs and comic book stuff. I was eccentric; imagination drove my decor. Dinosaurs, for sure, were in there!
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.