Top 402 Eccentric Quotes & Sayings

It's apparent that I'm really eccentric and lively.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

I think a bit of mystery is good, and I used to feel like an eccentric person pretending to be normal. But I am actually just a normal person seeming eccentric, by what I'm putting myself through.

Sci-fi fans are eccentric.

I do some eccentric dancing.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

I'll be seen as eccentric, like Vic Reeves or Spike Milligan, which would be amazing. But I suppose I'm in this weird transitional period between having some success doing weird stuff and not being eccentric yet. I'm in limbo.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

Eccentric is a difficult word because it's come to mean crazy. Avant-garde would be better. Eccentric is not "centric" in terms of having a center. Because sometimes it's used in a derogatory context.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil guys. Everything I've done is about these quite eccentric, exotic outsiders who you might see in a certain light at first, but once you scratch the surface a little, you realize that they're not that different from you. I think there's an element of that which unites.

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.

I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man.

On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit. Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.

There are times I wish I didn't have a job, even though I love my job: I get to work with interesting, eccentric colleagues and equally interesting and eccentric subject matter, both of which are rarities. But, naturally, I would treasure having more freedom someday: of time and of movement. Will I always have a full-time job? I don't know. But I do know that I need to spend at least part of my week in an office, with other people.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

Normality is the new eccentric.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.

I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.

My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

My teachers were often very eccentric.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

Part of me is nonhuman and eccentric, which is what a hobbit is, and I don't mind being eccentric.

What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.