Words matter. These are the best Eccentricity Quotes from famous people such as Edmund Morgan, Jared Kushner, Daveigh Chase, Radha Ravi, Tony Kaye, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York’s most charming neighborhoods.
I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.
When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character’s background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour… I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don’t know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.
No, I’m a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It’s not that I do that so much now but I’ve been doing it for so many years that it’s become routine now.
‘The Man Who Never Was,’ by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant – incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.
If the goal is to be believable when you’re acting, I’ve got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that’s a good part for me.
My music has a high irritation factor. I’ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
I think there’s a dark and twisted idea of democracy that everybody is as interesting as everybody else. So we mustn’t make anybody too interesting. There’s an ironing out of edges and eccentricities, idiosyncrasies in people and situations.
Now I’m old… maybe I’m still an eccentric hippie. There’s a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity – you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don’t have to be constrained. I think that’s why people are eccentric – eccentricity is a weapon… and it’s great!
I basically think that I’m a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
The art editor in charge of the covers at the ‘New Yorker’ is Francoise Mouly. She’s very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others – unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s.
I adore Britain! It’s my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.
He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.
Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by ‘The Grudge 2,’ from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I’m willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make it into an argument about identity.
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.
I’ve got a bit of the eccentricity of Africa and a bit of Western calm.
I don’t want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it’s a great place to come from. It’s also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.
There’s not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what’s sexy in people.
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you’re just mad.
