Outsider Quotes

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I didn`t realize that everything was supposed to fall apart at 40. So I just slid past 40 and 50. When you`re an outsider and not paying attention to the rules the hurdles are a little lower.

- Susan Sarandon

I decided to act when I was in the Air Force. I was going with a stripper in San Antonio, hanging out with some bizarre fringe people - who considered themselves "show people" - including this 250-pound transvestite who designed costumes for strip joints, and a few gangsters. I was a young kid in the middle of this stuff, and it led to my decision. They weren`t role models in a strict sense; more like the old freaks in the freak show. When I was younger I always felt like an outsider, and they said it was all right to be "the other." They had a nice little society, a little culture, and they dealt with life. So, as soon as I got out of the Air Force, I went right to New York. I figured that I could do anything I wanted. I had no one to answer to, nothing holding me back. - On when he decided to become an actor.

- Fred Ward

Her thoughts on Bollywood accepting her, being an outsider British girl, into Indian cinema: "I have no complaints. I think I`m especially lucky. As you said, I`ve come from outside and I`m not even anywhere closely connected. But I have absolutely no problem here. People have been more than welcoming, even before I was ready. There was a time when I felt that I need to take time to understand more about the industry, the workings of it. I was doing my modeling, which I really wanted to do at the time. So that`s why even my entry into films was later than people expected." (Stardust magazine, July 2006)

- Katrina Kaif

I`ve always felt as an outsider. I`ve been rebellious against any iconoclastic thing. It`s true about the industry, but also about society as a whole. I don`t blame anyone, but I think that society is negative in that people are terrified to be free. I was born on the edge of the mountains in Kentucky and now although I live in Hollywood I still feel more related to nature. It`s an attitude. I have a pool, but it`s to do laps in, not a status symbol.

- Harry Dean Stanton

After years of feeling like an outsider, I finally have a woman I love, and friends that I can trust. I am the luckiest man in the world to have met Sarah.

- Freddie Prinze Jr.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

- Luke Perry

I`ve always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I`m so insane I guess.

- Robert Downey Jr.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

- Shawn Ashmore

Anybody who`s ever gone through a hard time - any outsider`s perception, no matter how much information they`re given, they have no idea what the person`s life is like.

- Amy Grant

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

- Kristen Johnston

A man`s illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

- Lauren Bacall

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

- Elia Kazan

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

- Ethan Embry

I can`t go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

- Lasse Hallström

I`m a catalyst for change. You can`t be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

- Rupert Murdoch

I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn`t be there.

- Saku Koivu

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

- Ethel Waters

I was seen as an outsider in the beginning and then an object of great envy. All the national directors wanted to be international. They would come up to me and say, If I cast Michael Caine and Sean Connery, do you think this will make it?" There was this fascination with the international that was totally wrong-headed."

- Mira Nair

If you go in as an American outsider, Mister Moneybags, and say `I want to build you a school,` the local people will have no incentive to work on the project smartly or economically,

- John Wood

Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outsider. The dance studio was the one place I felt accepted and `just like everybody else` was in the dance studio. Hoping to improve the rhythm of my speech, my mother had enrolled me in a ballet class when I was five years old. The ballet class boosted my self-esteem.

- Heather Whitestone

I`m a drifter and an outsider. There`s not one single environment I can totally belong to. My cultural roots are something illusive.

- Ang Lee

I`m an outsider who hasn`t seen the show from the beginning but watches it sporadically -- although not only when I`m on it. When I was up there (in Vancouver, B.C., where the show is filmed) I was so enthusiastic that I think I watched about seven or eight new shows . I watched two or three from the last season and the two part opener, uncut. I`m very optimistic for their new season and new cast members.

- Robert Picardo

Well, it was put to me by that guy" (the guardian spirit) when I was, like, four. So I went into my parents` record collection and found a rock`n`roll compilation. And when my mom asked if I wanted to move to L.A., I said, "Yeah," because I knew that was where the rock stars were. I was seven. Then when I found punk and listened to the Germs, I started seeing how I was part of this. I remember being out on the baseball field when I was 11, and I felt like such an outsider. Standing there in right field, I started making up an angry punk song in my head, and I went home and wrote, like, 20 songs in a row. I realized it didn`t even matter if I knew how to play guitar yet."

- John Frusciante

To me, the outsider is God, ... If you take extreme fundamentalist Muslims, who believe it`s sent down from Allah that destroying the infidel is their duty, and then if you take the extreme fundamentalists on the Christian right, God got disenfranchised somewhere in that deal a long, long time ago. The minute you start saying `I`m the only one that`s right,` you have lost it, as far as I`m concerned.

- Rodney Crowell

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

- Robert Frost

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

- Josh Schwartz

Because I have success, it doesn`t mean I`m part of the mainstream. I`m still an outsider.

- Matt Drudge

I think, weirdly, it almost takes an outsider to be able to - with no cynicism - look at small-town America and realize how fantastic it is.

- Michael Davies

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

- Ville Valo

He offers the never-never land of convenient cliches. a world where statesmen say, "We`ve not heard the end of this," where people turn "scarlet with anger," where the price of gold goes "sky-high" and where the unsuspecting outsider "little knew what fate had in store for him."

- Paul Gray

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it`s very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

- Alfredo Rodriguez

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

- Allison Janse

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

- Amy Jackson

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend`s job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you`re given a uniform.

- Andres Araya

It`s wonderful to have an outsider remind you.

- Anne LaCour Neeb

It`s interesting to me that the questions assume that because I`m Asian-American and Pacific islander that I`m an outsider. But I`m not an outsider to the culture. In hip-hop, you either have something or you make way for someone who does. If you don`t have it, step out and learn. I feel I`ve had to earn my stripes.

- Arnaud de Borchgrave

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it`s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I`m all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I`ll always remain half crazy.

- Vincent van Gogh