Top 100 Outrageous Quotes

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don’t have the consolation of knowing they’re in a comedy.

My favorite thing to do is just hang out at home and watch a movie with my wife and my two daughters. There’s nothing outrageous about that but it’s the best thing I can do.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

I can stand on stage and do nothing, and people will write, ‘Divine was outrageous.’

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.

The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar ‘queen,’ alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

I love American girls. They’re audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.

Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn’t make sense, I don’t like the song.

Pat Toomey has worked to allow suspected terrorists to buy guns in this country, and that is just an outrageous position. Of all the kind of tough issues, this one should not be a tough call.

I’d heard about rehab, where you send people with drug problems, but I soon learned that there’s no standard definition of it; instead it’s a generic word for a wide variety of treatments, including some that are outrageous. Past-life therapy? Exorcism?

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

I like it when characters respond to things that are outrageous and movie-like in an authentic way.

It’s so nice to be able to get up on stage and just say the most disgusting, ridiculous, outrageous, offensive thing, knowing it’s just between you and the audience.

Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

They’re paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.

I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren’t outrageous but then act like they are.

Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.

My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole thing in my life was if anybody had a problem with me, tell them to go to hell.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don’t want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.

If there was a distraction I’d get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don’t think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

So you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna do something really outrageous, I’m gonna tell the truth.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that’s what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

I became the master of playing the straight bat – I would go to bars with the boys, I would always be the one to start a fight, to be outrageous and drink the most. I even went to the extreme of marrying the perfect woman for me.

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don’t win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

In Arizona, where farm dust is currently regulated, farmers are forced to park tractors on windy days to prevent getting strapped with outrageous fines.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

I don’t have to try to be outrageous. I am outrageous.

Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

If something is really outrageous, it doesn’t matter if it is one culture, or another, it’s outrageous.

God is still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate, to me, is outrageous.

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.

Simplicity and sexiness, that’s what people want. At a price that’s not outrageous.

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It’s being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can’t watch it. It turns me off.

It’s outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.

I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don’t. That’s not fair. That’s outrageous.

As we look around, it’s very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It’s not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don’t know how to work with them.

I totally understand that I am a little outrageous in some ways… I’m a little un-P.C., but I really wish I had the chance to perform for the American fans.

It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.

For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can’t specifically define style. It’s like the perfume to a flower. It’s a quality you can’t analyze.

Compared to what comics say today, I’m a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people like I did. Of course, they exaggerated how outrageous I really was.

After my show and others like it began airing on TV, network executives started to see that there was a market for outrageous, over-the-top content.

Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.

When you don’t have equality of opportunity because you don’t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they’re funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

I loved those movies from the eighties, movies like ‘Working Girl,’ ‘Nine to Five,’ ‘Outrageous Fortune,’ ‘The Heat,’ ‘Bridesmaids,’ ‘Pitch Perfect,’ and others.