Top 40 Weirder Quotes

‘First Light’ is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming from the edge of the universe. It tells how science is really done – and science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize.

The weirder the better for me.

I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don’t know if that’s something that would be suitable for public consumption.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

In ‘Bojack,’ at least at first, we had to couch some of the sadder or weirder or introspective stuff we were doing in the costume of a typical adult animated comedy. With ‘Undone,’ it felt like we’d outgrown that expectation.

It’s weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it’s just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it’s a lot more emotionally raw.

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going ‘straight,’ but I was just getting weirder – at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house – because it’s an easy fashion shot – that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that’s when I started wearing foundation every day.

If you were there behind every family’s closed doors, everyone’s a little wacko. Chances are that your family is no weirder than the next family or than the other girl at school’s family. Everyone can be quirky at times, and I embrace that, personally.

I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it’s Top 40.

I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things the weirder the better. The idea I could eat things like snails or frogs legs or things like that was mind-blowingly cool.

With something that’s not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way.

Black fathers are often disappointed if their sons aren’t good at sports. Not excelling at sports as a black boy meant not being cool – even weirder, it meant not really being black.

I actually went to an arts middle school with Shia LaBeouf, but even there, I was one of the weirder kids.

The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

I hadn’t seen ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ until high school or maybe even later than that. It’s really one of the great movie experiences where you think you know what it’s going to be, but it’s so much weirder and so much better than anything you could’ve imagined. It’s so full of these striking, powerful images.

My sensibilities are like, ‘I want it to be weirder.’

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn’t happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

I love the playfulness and braggadocio that accompanies a ton of rap music – that’s basically what makes up the foundation for most rappers. But there is nothing ‘weirder’ to me than someone who has never doubted themselves.

I always feel like people in general are much weirder and insane than anybody really wants to admit. How dare somebody watch anything and go, ‘That’s not real!’ Go on the subway. For five minutes.

I find that I’m quite experimental. I’m drawn to the brighter and weirder things.

I don’t know what’s in store for me, but I know that I want to create work, and I want to create an environment where I can bring in my favorite people and collaborate with them, and do something that is so much weirder and so different from what you’d see in commercial film.

I can’t be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.

I feel like things are weirder in our food production chain than I can even make up. I wouldn’t invent pink slime, but pink slime exists: It’s a non-fictional entity. Like, that stuff grosses me out so much, I couldn’t make it up.

The first person on the BBC that played me was Huw Stephens. I was sat around my laptop with my girlfriend and my family, and it was super-exciting. It felt weird, and it sounded weirder, but it was great.

Some kids think I’m some kind of weirdo. I probably am weirder than most people.

We’re fans of stuff like Maiden, but I think we generally get it from weirder places. For me, the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’ represents one of the most brilliant harmony approaches to music. Boston did it very well, too.

Living and performing in New York has allowed me to try my weirder and more experimental things.

Everyone at a performing arts schools is weird. The weirder you were, the better. If you weren’t weird in some way, they’d look at you and be like, ‘Who’s that square?’

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn’t it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

Everyone who goes to a job he doesn’t like is a lot weirder than I am.

I guess I’m weirder than I thought, particularly as I think about me as a dad.

As far as I can see women who have facelifts don’t look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces – then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky.

I’m going to do a lot of weird stuff that’s not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it’s time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.

Left to my own devices, I tend to go darker and weirder, and it’s fun.

My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far, no one has.

I’ve never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are crawling out from under rocks to go to the post office.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

I think as time goes by you’ll get female comics who are weirder – you’ll get a female Mighty Boosh.