Words matter. These are the best Strangest Quotes from famous people such as Paul Dano, John M. Grunsfeld, Nathaniel Rich, Harriet Walter, Gael Garcia Bernal, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it’s almost freelance work.
The strangest thing I’ve found is that when I got to space, I felt more comfortable in space that I’ve ever been on Earth before. I just felt this is my home.
I live in New Orleans, because it’s the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there’s nowhere else remotely like it.
My strangest experience was my six words in ‘Star Wars.’ I’ve had more fanmail from that than anything I’ve ever done.
I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I’d seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me – it was the strangest feeling.
The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions – dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.
One of the strangest unintended consequences of abortion, of legalized abortion, was that it drives the crime rate down because what abortion really was, was a mechanism for which fewer unwanted children could be born.
One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.
One of the strangest things that used to happen at half time was that you’d come in, and you would have to sit down and be quiet. Get your drink, your energy bars or whatever, and sit down.
There’s something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.
When it’s all over I might be able to say I’ve had the strangest career in pro football history.
Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.
All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you’ll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.
I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn’t move. I couldn’t make myself move. It was the strangest feeling.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the ‘Codex Seraphinianus’ is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy – it is written in an alphabet no one can understand – and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.
I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. ‘Ghost’ was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I’m black? Oh, am I black?
Ewan McGregor and I ate a lot of strange things on our motorcycle journey around the world, but the strangest had to be a meal we had in Mongolia.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
If the Pacific took Nauru, it’d wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth.
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It’s one of the strangest but most entertaining things I’ve read about myself online.
People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.
Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin – it looks very shiny, but it’s not oily. It’s stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they’ll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet – I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
It’s one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
In California, you want to have the strangest thing, be doing the strangest thing. People admire that.
My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.
The strangest place I have been recognised is a urinal. I was like: ‘Why are you talking to me now?’ That is the weirdest thing, but the most uncomfortable is when you are on the street and someone just grabs you.
The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn’t really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.
One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don’t know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.
People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.
‘Leave It to Beaver,’ which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television’s celebrated Golden Age.
I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I’ve been really lucky to walk away from the ‘Twilight’ series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it’s like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word ‘star’ just doesn’t apply.
I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.
One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there’s more.