Top 50 Weirdest Quotes

When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable – onstage, talking, making ’em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.

It’s the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized… It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to… In L.A., I’m just another character actor.

One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It’s deliberate chaos.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

Pop should be weird, and I realize as I say this that I’m not the weirdest person in the world. But if that means a girl sounding like Kylie Minogue and looking like Kurt Cobain, then so be it.

I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.

I wanted to create the weirdest show ever made on television – a punky, prog-rock nightmare of lurid colours.

I don’t particularly like attention. I like to do things on my own. I like to dress myself. People always ask that at shoots: ‘Do you want any help?’ That’s the weirdest question.

Some of the most successful artists are the weirdest ones – look at Lady Gaga. I’ve done shows with her and she’s amazing.

The weirdest request I got was for a picture of me naked with nothing on but my cowboy boots. Needless to say, she went home empty-handed. I have, however, on several occasions, strolled around my apartment in nothing but my cowboy boots. There was just no one there to take pictures.

My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it’s in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It’s the weirdest thing, ’cause you’re like, ‘It will never happen to me,’ and when it does, it’s like, ‘OK, wow.’

One of the weirdest things about Christmas in this country is that people love to watch ‘EastEnders’ when everyone’s in floods of tears and there’s a huge row. I don’t know if watching it makes them feel better about their own day. Personally, I would rather try to be a bit more positive!

I think the weirdest question I’ve ever gotten was, ‘If people had wheels and could fly, how would we differentiate them from airplanes?’

Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.

‘Beauty Queen’ is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before ‘Hedda Gabler’, because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn’t really hook into them. After ‘An American Daughter’ and ‘Beauty Queen’, I had all the ballast.

If Connecticut is haunted then New Haven is the weirdest of the towns that is haunted.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn’t do any work, yet it was so competitive.

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.

I watch the weirdest things. I watch old episodes of ‘Golden Girls’ because my mom watches it, so I grew up watching that. Sometimes I watch reruns of ‘Futurama,’ which is a cartoon and not based in the real world at all.

I have panic attacks here and there, like in the weirdest places ever, and I’ve learned to deal with them.

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was ‘Loco’ because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

I’m a straight guy and I date women, but I get on really well with gay guys. I’m very comfortable with my sexuality. The weirdest thing for me is when straight guys get really freaked out by gay guys. It’s almost like they’re insecure in their own sexuality. For me, I can be in a room full of gay men and have fun.

If you manifest your true self through nature and your normal surroundings, I find that the most eerie. Like when you see birds suddenly start flying in a different direction or when you see moths forming weird shapes, I think that’s the weirdest way to let yourself be known.

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there’s someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it’s the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

My first kiss was at a sleep-away camp, and it was very awkward and over quickly. And that was that. It was just the weirdest thing, and I thought, ‘That was it? Get out of here!’ I didn’t even know his last name.

The weirdest place someone has asked me for advice was at a party where there were a lot of A-list celebrities and super-wealthy people. There were people in the middle of mingling asking for investment advice, and I’m like, ‘Hey, I’m just here to dance. I’m here to have fun!’

Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he’s the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he’s the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you’re talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, ‘Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.’

I couldn’t hope to be in anything better than ‘Misfits.’ The reaction from fans has been mental. The weirdest thing is when people tell me I’m their inspiration. I can’t believe I get fan mail, and loads of free clothes. Adidas sent me lots of stuff; it’s wicked!

If I wasn’t making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach myself how to shave with a straight razor. I had to find the weirdest things just to increase my understanding of other cultures or other arts or intellectual pursuits.

I can’t believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it’s actually real. It’s hard to believe sometimes.

Fame is the weirdest thing ever.

I was appearing on ‘Top of the Pops’ when I was in my mid-thirties or something. It was fantastic! But it was the weirdest thing, I’ll admit. Was I me? Was I Angie Watts? Was I me as Angie? I didn’t have a clue, but I was having enormous fun all the same.

Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

‘Pastoralia’ by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It’s one of the weirdest books I’ve ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

One of the weirdest questions I’ve gotten on the campaign trail is, ‘Are you going to run as a woman?’ I’m like, ‘Do I have an option?’ Like, what does this mean?

I was the weirdest kid in this small town in Washington. I was the only person who was from somewhere else, so I think they just didn’t understand it… They said I was a weirdo or that I didn’t belong there. That was the hardest one when people said I didn’t belong there.

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.

Who have I been starstruck by in real life? One of the weirdest ones was, when we were making ‘Cry-Baby,’ David Nelson from ‘The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet.’ I couldn’t believe he was sitting in my living room. Certainly Patricia Hearst. Tab Hunter. A lot of the stars I’ve worked with, when I first got them.

17 is the weirdest age, because you can’t figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

I get the weirdest comments on Instagram.

This is the weirdest industry. When you have a job, you can’t fall into the pitfalls of thinking you’re secure. If it’s not a firing, it’s a strike.

When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I’m doing to my skin, but it’s makeup. It’s the weirdest thing. They’ll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and you’ll see… you can make your nose look… what ever shape you want it.

Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.