Top 40 Normality Quotes

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by ‘normality.’

We’ve become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there’s a thinner line between fantasy and normality. People spend much more time in their own heads now. There’s so much to conform to, so many influences coming at you.

The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

As someone who has put my life on hold, my personal life on hold, for Parliament and for public service for over a decade and a half, I really got to a culmination point where I had to make a decision to have more normality in my life, or sacrifice that entirely for a campaign that was going to be all consuming.

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

I’ve found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Who wouldn’t like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

In some of the estates, there are generations of people who have been without work, so the environment and the example passed down generations is the normality of being without work.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There’s nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

Comedy shouldn’t be restrained under the belt of normality.

As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there – you can create a new normality.

I would quite like to see stories that are not necessarily to do with the violence, because I think there was quite a lot of normality in our world – but it is never reflected on the screen.

The trick is the paradox – turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that’s fun to write.

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.

I do find it quite difficult to complete a job and return to normality – it does take a bit of time to find my healthy place.

After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life – and that proved hard. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising.

Even when I wrap my work and come home or whatever it is I try to do, I can identify with that feeling of being a little outside, of struggling to get back into normality.

I wish I could spend more time in Africa. I have this intense sense of complete relaxation and normality here.

With ‘White Light,’ I had just finished watching ‘Under the Skin’ and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

There is no normality in life.

Normality is boring.

Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won’t let me – difficult as it is for my family.

To have that normality to come back to, to totally relax and not have to deal with a lot of the pressure that’s put on young actors makes it a lot easier.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I’ve never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

I get homesick – I could be in the sunniest place, but I need to see normality, and normal, for me, is London.

There’s something in us that lives just beyond our normality – and I think we’ve all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

Some people don’t like showing any deviation from normality, but I like talking about things like that, so talking about my mental health wasn’t a big deal.

The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says – ‘Notice me, feed me, mother me’ – is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded ‘normality’ it has been such ecstasy to escape.

I am a very simple man. I love normality, and I love normal people. I love to eat normal food. It’s how I grew up.

Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality – which indeed may be a rare achievement.

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

That’s the reality of my life – I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.