“I'm harmless. I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody. When people know you're that way, you can say stuff that the creepy guy at your office could never get away with.” PeopleKnowsWayGuyStuffOfficeIllGet AwayCreepyIll Will Author:Adam Carolla
“The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.” KnowsMayWarFeelingsHateNaturalCitiesFictionTechnologyCollegeProudMajorsBlameScience FictionCriticsPhysicsSuitsGentlemanDullBrownChemistryDespiseEngineersPersistBe ProudImpressiveRespectableCreepyRefrigeratorsEnglish MajorQuads Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn't just a bunch of people walking around slow. They did close-ups on zombies who were performing, as a mindless dead thing. They were creepy and scary.” PeopleWorldWarFilmWalkingPerformancesScaryBunchPerformingWar Of The WorldsZombieCreepyMindlessWorld War Z Author:Tom Savini
“I've seen comedians make people laugh by being either really dark and sad and touching, or really strange and bizarre and creepy. You can take the format and do whatever you want with it, and that seemed interesting to me.” PeopleWantDarkInterestingLaughingStrangeComedianTouchingBizarreCreepyMaking People LaughFormatDo Whatever You Want Author:Amy Seimetz
“Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.” IfsFactsSpiritCertainGirlOpportunitySpeakLanguageTalentMoonSingingDuesTunesPeculiarQuartersDiscoveringCreepyOnce Upon A TimeSlothFlutesGnomeJadeFruitcake Author:Ursula Vernon
“I think most comedians go through that (period), where you have to change or evolve. You don't want to just keep doing variations on the same themes. And, besides, it would look kinda creepy for a guy my age to be doing stuff that, like, a 20-year-old would do. 'Yeah, this is bullshit!' It's, like, 'Really? You don't have bigger concerns at this point in your life?'” ThinkingWantYearsLooksAgeGuyStuffPeriodsConcernBiggerYeahEvolveComedianThemeBullshitVariationCreepy Author:Patton Oswalt
“I definitely have a Google obsession of Juliette Binoche. I'm obsessed. I'll read everything she's ever said. I can tell you anything you want to know about Juliette Binoche, or Jack White. Those are my two creepy obsessions.” KnowsWantSaidI CanTwoWhiteObsessionObsessedGoogleCreepy Author:Elizabeth Reaser
“That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.” MenFactsKidsAmericaCultureStreetsMiddleIndustryRedScaredLustWrong ThingsCreepyMcdonaldsMiddle AgedMtvPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical IndustryHerringRed Herrings Author:Bill Maher
“The internet's a creepy thing, especially if you have kids. It says something very creepy about the fact that I use the same machine to masturbate with as I use to teach my kid the alphabet.” IfsFactsUseKidsTeachInternetMachinesCreepyAlphabet Author:Greg Giraldo
“The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle?” BookBigsTermBrotherUnderstoodCamerasPhrasesUnclesCreepy Author:Craig Ferguson
“What we're going for, in those humorous moments, is the absurdity of it all. The craziness of the night manager offering them an umbrella in the height of what is a horrible disaster was like, "What?!" That's Andy Greenfield, and he nailed the audition. He's the sweetest guy in the world, as is often the case with those guys, but on camera, he's so creepy that a lot of us kept saying, "You know, Andy, don't look at us like that anymore, okay? You're scaring us."” KnowsWorldLooksMomentsNightGuyCasesHumorousOkayCamerasDisasterHorribleManagersHeightOfferingAbsurdityAuditionsSweetestCreepyUmbrellaCraziness Author:Remi Aubuchon
“I'm so weird with women. I couldn't go up to a gorgeous woman and tell her the building's on fire. 'Don't take this the wrong way, uh. I don't mean to be weird and I'm not trying to be creepy, but the building's on fire.” WayTryingMeanFireBuildingGorgeousCreepyWrong WayGorgeous Women Author:Dana Gould
“I think it's creepy if a guy says, I would never hit a girl. Cause that should go without saying. That's like if you ever heard a guy go, I would never crap in a hot tub.” IfsThinkingShouldGuyGirlCausesHeardHotCrapCreepyTubsHot Tub Author:Bonnie McFarlane
“I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.” BookProduceMoodGatheringFascinationCreepyDescent Author:Gemma Files
“When I was a kid, before there were VCRt, my parents had a movie projector, and we'd watch Frankenstein and Dracula. I just always though that stuff was cool - creepy comics and monsters and horrific stuff. Music lends itself to that whole theme.” WholeKidsStuffParentWatchesMonstersThemeCreepyHorrificProjectors Author:Chris Reifert
“I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.” LittlesFeelingsRealityPlanesCreepyEerie Author:Alan Palomo
“I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.” PeopleThinkingPowerfulInstitutionsConservatismCreepy Author:Andrew Sullivan
“William Howard Taft, who he embarrassed in these congressional hearings, attacks him as an emotionalist and a socialist and a cosmopolitan in terms that kind of have an anti-Semitic overtone. And even the pro-Brandeis press supported him in terms that really seem creepy today. There's this piece from Life magazine. It says, "Mr. Brandeis is a Jew. And until now there's never been a Jew on the Supreme Court. Perhaps it's time we have one."” KindSeemsTodayTermPiecesCourtPressesJewHearingSupremeMagazinesSocialistEmbarrassedSupreme CourtCreepyAnti SemiticTaft Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.” WantMeanBabyHorribleCreepyHorrible Things Author:Caitlin Moran
“It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets.” LongStillsNew YorkStrangeIslandsCreepyLong Island Author:David Krumholtz
“Nobody cares about that. I do have guys every now and then who say - it's always guys by the way, it's never women - who say, "You were my childhood crush, can we date?" And I'm like, "There's something kind of creepy about that. Do you hear yourself?"” WayKindCareGuyChildhoodCrushNow And ThenCreepyNobody Cares Author:Mara Wilson
“It would be creepy if you knew my home address.” IfsHomeWould BeAddressesCreepy Author:Scott Eastwood
“I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring the talk always to vulgar, low levels. Even his presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.” TryingLevelsIssuesLowsIntelligentClintonOpponentsBullyingVulgarElegantCreepyLurkingLow Level Author:Natalie Portman
“Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.” TrumpBullyingCreepyLurking Author:Natalie Portman
“I just remember a creepy sex-ed teacher putting a banana on a condom and then saying, "It goes in the girl if she gets all juicy." We didn't even believe it. We were like, "Well, that's weird."” IfsBelieveWellsRememberGirlSexTeacherCreepyBananasCondomJuicy Author:Jen Kirkman
“I look at [Toronto] and think well, perhaps my grandchildren will someday look at this stuff with the sort of appreciation I once held for Art Deco. Although I've come to find Art Deco quite creepy too.” ThinkingWellsLooksArtStuffAppreciationSomedayGrandchildrenCreepyTorontoMy GrandchildrenArt Deco Author:William Gibson
“One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.” WorldTryingPersonsWorryGloriousCreepy Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.” SelfEvidenceSelf ConfidenceDespiteCreepy Author:Kesha
“I remember reading an interview that Anthony Hopkins had given about how he developed Hannibal Lecter. He said he just looked in the mirror and, I forget exactly what it was, but he looked in the mirror and realized that when he smiled, it looked creepy.” SaidRememberReadingGivenForgetMirrorsInterviewsCreepyHopkins Author:Julie Benz
“We are not attracted to people because they are virtuous. In fact, there's something a little creepy about people who are too good. There is a big draw to people who are successful at breaking the rules. That means we end up admiring a lot of people that we think we shouldn't.” PeopleThinkingMeanLittlesEndsFactsBigsSuccessfulDrawsVirtuousCreepyAdmiring Author:Lionel Shriver
“For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous - you can also be a creepy guru/abusive therapist, too, so you have to be very careful. But it feels really important to me.” FeelsWritingKindImportantLinesCreativeTeacherCarefulCreative WritingGuruCreepyTherapistsAbusive Author:Annie Baker
“When I came up with the concept of 'The Dream,' on the surface he just seemed like another creepy bad man or villain. It had to be played by someone larger than life, but not malicious. And Keanu Reeves is that person to me, and he was The Dream like I wanted The Dream.” MenDreamVillainCreepyMalicious Author:Ana Lily Amirpour
“We're terrified of shocks but we're so fascinated by it at the same time. We're terrified of spiders and reptiles and all of that but at the same time you're fascinated by them - you want to go to the zoo and go behind the glass and look at all these creepy crawlies! It's the same thing with the supernatural. I think we're very frightened by it.” ThinkingCreepy Author:James Wan
“I feel like I've been doing performing my entire life. I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten. I didn't have one of those creepy stage moms that made me do stuff. I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.” AgeMomSingingPerformingCreepy Author:Alex Winston
“Bands now are always trying to make their presence known through social networking and whatnot, but that's just the same as bands before the Internet age trying to connect with fans in some other way. But I don't follow people on Facebook, I think that's creepy. I wouldn't want them following me on Facebook. I don't even have a mailing list.” PeopleThinkingTryingAgeInternetCreepySocial NetworkingSocial NetworkMailing Author:Jeff Rosenstock
“I don't want to sound creepy, but I remember when I couldn't really talk. I was looking at the television and my mother just moved one of the curtains, so the sun started to hit the television, and I couldn't see the television anymore. I started crying. I wasn't able to find the words to say, "I can't see this anymore, please do something about it." I remember crying and not knowing exactly how to express myself; not because it was painful, or that I was too upset, but because there were no words. As human beings, sometimes we just cry when we don't know how to say something.” SometimesRememberMotherCryMovedPainfulUpsetRemember WhenCreepy Author:Mauro Remiddi
“I think a lot of people read the album cover as something scary or creepy. I think it's something positive...something lasting.” PeopleThinkingScaryCreepy Author:Chelsea Wolfe
“Sex makes things strained. There are lovely people in Oneida, but everyone was married to everyone else. And you had fathers and mothers watching their twelve-year-old daughters being inducted into the group marriage by sixty-five-year-old men. There are creepy aspects of a lot of intentional communities when it comes to sex.” PeopleMenMotherFatherCommunityMarriedDaughterLovelyOld ManCreepy Author:Lauren Groff
“You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.” WritingArtistStrangeMaterialsThings To DoCalamityCreepy Author:Tony Kushner
“Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'” TryingGuyDatingLikesLandscapeCooksOddCreepyBleakPancakes Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.” ThinkingWaySaidChoicesGetting OldCreepy Author:Kate Beckinsale
“I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there.” FilmSecurityShotsPrisonRussiaLocationMaximumCreepyPsychiatricVibes Author:Norman Reedus
“The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.” DarkRoomsComedyStoresCreepy Author:Joe Rogan
“I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.” ThinkingNeedsFilmMillionsHorrorCreepyHorror Film Author:George A. Romero
“Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy.” PeopleIfsChildrenSometimesHouseSpaceRoomsBabyExcitingShoesTinyPairsCreepyTossCrutchesHallwaysPair Of Shoes Author:Amy Sedaris
“The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.” KnowsGivingTodaySoundStreetsRocksCreatingClassicSoloSeventiesCreepyChorusSaxophoneBakersUlyssesRaphaelBaker Street Author:Rob Sheffield
“Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.” Wake UpHonestlyCreepy Author:Kevin Smith