The thing that influenced me most in relation to ‘Nanny McPhee’ were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it’s a stranger from out of town.
It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it’s such a long time ago – I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes – he’s almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.
Never floss with a stranger.
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the ’60s and ’70s, I knew that prejudice was common.
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
I’m no stranger to pain. It’s what made me.
Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.
In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
I liked ‘Making A Murderer,’ ‘Master of None.’ ‘Stranger Things’ I watched along with everyone else in the world. ‘Narcos,’ I really liked ‘Narcos’ a lot.
I remember when ‘Stranger Things’ came out, if I had to watch one episode a week, I wouldn’t have been nearly as into it as I was when I just sat there and watched the whole thing in, like, two days.
Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
I’m quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don’t look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more ‘character’-type parts. I wouldn’t say I’m the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.
People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don’t you feel a certain alienation?
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
The one thing I can say about the ‘Stranger Things’ cast that I don’t often feel when I do television and movies is that every single actor on that show that I’ve interacted with is a good-hearted person.
I remember once seeing a guy in the grocery store who looked so much like my character the Archangel Gabriel, I wanted to go up to him and say, ‘Hey, put that Red Bull down. You’ve already got wings.’ My friend had to sternly remind me that he was a stranger and I did not, in fact, create him.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
It’s intriguing to me, when I see a horror script, or something like that, that’s actually original. I think that’s why I love ‘Stranger Things,’ because it’s not just horror, it’s everything, and when they use horror it’s right.
‘Carnival Row’ is us looking at the stranger; ‘The Curiosity’ is the stranger looking at us.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Before, I would just only stick to a few certain colors that were considered good for my skin tone and good for my hair. But ever since ‘Stranger Things,’ the wardrobe people there, they would always stick me in these super bright colors. I discovered all these new colors that I just like wearing.
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there’s such a thing as believability when you’re writing a novel.
Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of ‘Stranger Things.’
Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it’s different when it’s personal. Not something I would recommend.
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
For every hate-filled attempt to harm, there will be always the legion of those who do not hesitate to give their help and care to a stranger when it is needed.
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.
There are many random, unprotected sites online that appear safe to use and are ready to accept credit card information. You wouldn’t give a stranger off the street your credit card information, so be extra cautious about who you are sharing it with online.
We were at a Giants game, and my manager told me, ‘Sadie, you have an audition for a show called ‘Stranger Things,” and I had just finished binge-watching it in a few days.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
You can have your opinions, and you can share them with your friends, but why would you go online to tell a stranger something random about their appearance? I don’t get that.
I’ll talk to any stranger about everything. I’m not guarded.
Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman.
Even when ‘Stranger Things’ was finished and we couldn’t touch it anymore, we saw all these problems still and we were begging Netflix to go back in and fix stuff. They were like, ‘Guys, stop, just leave it alone.’ But it was torturous, honestly.
In ‘Stranger Things,’ of course, I have all these kids around me and I feel like on a TV show, you’re more connected with everyone already. But it’s fun getting on a movie set and getting to know everyone. There’re pros and cons to everything.
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
I read a lot of true crime growing up – ‘The Stranger Beside Me’ by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger’s brow, the muggy air stifles – one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger’s voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men’s eyes might not see Her misery.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
Codes and signals are as important as explicit messages, and the two are linked. The bore pressing someone to tell them ‘where they’re really from’ will see themselves as different to the aggressive stranger barking at someone to ‘get back to their own country,’ but the subconscious, if not explicit, message is the same.
I’m not a stranger to fan attention. I do have my share of admirers and fans. To me they are God. Whatever I am, whatever I’ve achieved is because of them.
