Top 161 Stranger Quotes

I’m always getting texts asking why I’m not responding on Instagram or Facebook, and I’m like, ‘It’s not me. You’re writing to some stranger.’

As soon as they sent me an email saying that ‘Stranger Things’ is having an audition and they’d like you to come in, I just thought, ‘Oh boy, this might be fated.’ I hadn’t really watched the show, but I binged it and fell in love with it.

You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

I’ve never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.

I grew up reading about all those film-makers who were part of a group, like the new wave. It’s a little stranger when it’s you.

The beauty of ‘The OA’ or ‘Stranger Things’ is that they are both made by Netflix for Netflix. And so there was a freedom all of a sudden that matched our intention.

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it’s stranger than non-fiction as well.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.

I don’t dislike ‘It’ or ‘Stranger Things,’ but I’m just not as super into it, because, like, I’ve seen ‘E.T.’ a lot. And I’ve watched ‘The Goonies.’

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn’t advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn’t wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don’t take it personally.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you’d never otherwise have. You’re unplugged, your phone doesn’t work, you’re not online.

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.

I never got on the ‘Stranger Things’ train. Everybody else did, but for me, I’m the wrong audience because I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.

I’ve had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren’t showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.

My friend had told me about ‘Stranger Things’ and how I had to watch it. I was like, ‘OK, I will!’ I binged it in, like, a day and was like, ‘Oh my gosh, Mom, you need to watch this show. Everyone needs to watch this.’ A week later, I got the breakdown for Max. A month later, I got the part.

It’s one thing for your mum to tell you that you look OK, but she’s your mum and she has to tell you you’re beautiful. It’s not the same as a stranger telling you.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I can sit down with my sisters, and they can talk about my body in a certain way, and I will laugh about it with them. That’s such a comfortable and loving relationship. But if a stranger I meet in a party makes the same comment, depending on their tone, that’s not okay.

Acting is even stranger than I thought it would be.

Those Duffer Brothers really know how to tell a story, and I think it makes you want to watch. ‘Stranger Things’ is remarkably watchable.

The plot of ‘Stranger Things’ is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear ‘The Stranger.’ ‘You May Be Right’ may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

I got the ‘Stranger Things’ script, like, a week before NBC canceled ‘State of Affairs.’ I really had this moment where I’m like, ‘I’m done.’ My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, ‘I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.’

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I’m the invisible woman.

God is not distant: he is ‘Emmanuel,’ God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus.

As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it’s like to be discriminated against just because of your background or religion.

My mother is a realist, and she’s had biological and adoptive children, and she said it’s no different: No matter what, they’re putting a stranger into your arms. You don’t know them yet.

While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion – namely, that I myself could not think at all.

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

There’s a book called ‘You’re Not a Stranger Here’ by Adam Haslett – short stories, a lot of them are about mental illness and gay people – that classic combination. But they’re really well-written, really powerful. It’s pretty good.

Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.

I always try and make people feel that they are strong enough to say something – anything, to anyone – even if it’s a stranger or they’re just writing a tweet if they’re in danger.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have ‘takes,’ and it’s their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

When I first auditioned for ‘Stranger Things,’ I was just living in Chicago. Just looking for a job. Working at a restaurant, doing commercials and bit parts on shows. I honestly would have been happy booking anything.

I need a strong woman who can handle the attention I get and not get upset if I cuddle a stranger for a social photo.

A guy stopped me in the street the other day as I was skipping and singing to myself while walking with my son, Hudson who was also dancing along. I didn’t even realize I was doing it, it was just happening, and that made me smile. It rubs off on Hudson and it even rubbed off on a total stranger.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I’m no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there’s always been a physical nature to me.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they’re old and grizzled. I’m no stranger to that dynamic.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

I remember, when I was modelling in Japan, the agency would tell us that some guy wanted to take all the girls out to dinner, and I would be the one girl who didn’t go – I didn’t want to go out with a stranger.

Men know something that women don’t know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I’m no stranger to that sort of landscape.