Top 399 Odd Quotes

Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term ‘still’ seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we’re all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.

Stephen Jones’ hats are what we used to call ‘creations’; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They’re worn in a parallel universe.

As a writer – and a romance novelist, no less – I’ve always found it a bit odd when characters in comic books remain in relationship limbo for years at a time.

There was a deficit between what I was earning and what my family needed to live off. I was resigned to the fact that, while I may do the odd night, I was going to have to get a proper job.

I’ll tell you God’s truth: I think that this script that Neil has written – ‘Odd Couple Two,’ I think, is superior to the original one – to the first one.

I think it’s a good thing that I eat well. Don’t get me wrong, I go for fish and chips sometimes or the odd kebab, but you need more healthy food than bad.

As a vicar’s son, I understood performance. It never seemed odd to me that you’d stand up in front of people wearing weird clothes.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

Yeah, I’ve had an odd youth, But I wouldn’t know the difference if I’d lived it any other way. And I wouldn’t change any of it because I quite like what I’m doing.

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I’ve just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

At the age of 16, I ran from my house, did odd jobs till l landed work on television and then in film industry. My first job was at an STD booth in Delhi. Then I came to Mumbai, where I distributed DVDs, and that is when I got my first TV show offer, ‘Left Right Left.’ I have never planned things in my career.

Growing up, I was the odd bird. My interest in mathematics, my interest in the world, how I approach things from a scientific standpoint. You’re always going to be looked at as a different bird.

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.

Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it’s kind of odd.

By virtue of my job, I’m traveling. You get to spend very little time with your family. We hardly get to meet each other except on the one odd day we really get to spend time, have dinner together. And that’s rare, and we cherish it.

It is that bizarre thing. If I had kids, I, of course, would tell them there’s Santa, but it’s also just an odd feeling to be blatantly lying to kids.

I just like magical, fantastical stuff. I don’t really see it as surreal when I’m writing. It’s just, I write, and then I have an idea, and usually, they’re quite odd.

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there’s a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.

I’ve been spoilt with ‘Emmerdale’ over the years. I’ve had a taste of high drama, action, explosive scenes, emotional scenes and the odd bit of comedy with Bernice.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers’ week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It’s odd, it’s funny, and it pays really well.

The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

My taste in the films I’ve taken as an actor is similar to what I’d do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would’ve been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we’ve had significantly more than nine stoppages and odd twists and turns.

I have little weird things that aren’t really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5’s backwards, and I don’t know if anyone would even care, at all.

I happen to think nearly everybody – especially those one might find in the odd issue of ‘People’ magazine, including me – is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

The Dutch do have a slightly odd sense of humour.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn’t feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker’s apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different – from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

There’s something really admirable about French culture and an attraction in how independent it is from our own. So, it’s odd that in other countries that are very American-influenced – who seem to care more about the Oscars than anyone here does – there’s both anti-Americanism and also too much America.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I’ve played overshadow the comedic stints that I’ve had. ‘Darjeeling Limited’ is a comedy; The ‘Brothers Bloom’ is a comedy.

We’re quick to describe politicians whose views we find extreme or whose behavior seems odd as ‘crazy,’ and perhaps anyone who runs for president in some sense is. But I’ve long wondered whether Newt Gingrich merits that designation in a more clinical sense.

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

I always say ‘Knocked Up’ opened the doors, and ‘Hangover’ just burst it wide open. To this day, it’s still surreal. And my wife’s a doctor. All our friends are doctors – our close friends. And it’s just that I have an odd job now. I think I’m like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job.

I was embarrassed about modeling. When you’re at school and you’re modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn’t want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn’t want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don’t make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn’t just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

The odd thing about Bob is that even though he’s known as really taking chances and being very sensual, he was also a very moral man.

People feel like they know you because they’ve read about you, and people who don’t know me seem to have warm feelings about me. I seem to be popular with women. I go into the loo in restaurants, and they all say, ‘Oh, I love you.’ It’s odd, but it’s really nice, too.

I love playing odd roles.

I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.

As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd scorpion.

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

I’ve often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I’m Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

I don’t think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there’s an idea that only white people are relatable. I don’t think it’s necessarily racist. But it’s odd, because the people who watch the most television are black women, so we should be represented in more ways.

I’ve been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor’s concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.

People have actually had my face tattooed on to their bodies, which is so odd.