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“The weirdest moments for me are in Los Angeles when I go to a mall that I've shopped at since I was 12, and now there's like, massive pictures of our faces everywhere, at my local coffee shops now there's these billboards of people wearing the T-shirts and stuff. It's very strange, but it's really exciting.”

People Moments Faces Stuff Strange Exciting Coffee Locals Shirts Shops Massive Los Angeles T Shirt Malls Billboards Coffee Shop

Author:Lily Collins

“People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.”

People Want Speak Path Strange Expression What You Want Footsteps

Author:Max Irons

“I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.”

People World Trying I Can Home Courses Behinds Strange Normal Recognise Other Worlds Normal Life Working Life Recognise You

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“The way I've described Helen's sort of rigorous honesty I just think he also has tremendously. It's very strange... he just has this sort of way of making it happen really. You're not really aware of being directed, so much as being a part of this thing.”

Thinking Way Happens Honesty Strange Helen

Author:Colin Firth

“Years ago, I was thinking about this type of character and what happens when you've lived in this sort of strange, surreal world where it's parties all the time and then you don't get to live there anymore. What do you do with the rest of your life?”

Thinking World Years Character Happens Party Strange Type Years Ago Real World Rest Of Your Life Surreal

Author:Anna Faris

“There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.”

Thinking Guy Strange Morality Drug Scripts Torture Clue Immoral Mafia Pimp

Author:David Suchet

“It's unusual to spend even three full hours away from my newborn baby, it's like a piece of my body is back in the hotel room, and it does feel strange. But I love my work, though, it's not just a job for me, punching in my time card. I've always loved what I do, it's what makes me happy and I figure if I'm happy I'll be a good Mum too.”

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Author:Naomi Watts

“Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.”

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Author:Willem Dafoe

“I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.”

People Thinking Kind Fall Strange Bigger

Author:Jonah Hill

“Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to watch. I was 14, 13 maybe, when Robocop came out. Seeing Robocop at my brother's friend's house, and not really supposed to be watching it, because it was [rated] 18 and I was 13. That mind-blowing experience, because not only is it a great film, but it feels illicit.”

Way Feels Mind Film Young Spirit House Watches Seeing Strange Brother Hot Supposed To Be My Brother Mind Blowing Great Film Robocop

Author:Edgar Wright

“If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.”

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Author:Michel Ocelot

“If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Actors Goal Strange Gary

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do the same thing, let them be warned: ELECTRICITY IS VERY DANGEROUS. Never play with old batteries! Never put your plug in a strange socket! And if you are in any doubt about the voltage of the current where you are living, ask a major appliance.”

Source: The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances

“It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.”

Looks Beautiful Greatness Strange Privilege

Author:Thomas Starr King

“Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that role and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct. My initial instinct does lead me in a direction that I can trust.”

Thinking Way Feels Humans Kind Doe I Can Sometimes Seems Roles Strange Instinct Scripts Aliens Behave Initials Sitcom Leading Me

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I find it very strange doing voiceover stuff, because you find you have to enunciate and make stupid faces in order for the point to make sense, because it's playing against the deadpan Simpson face. If you're just speaking in the regular way you speak, it will sound really boring.”

Ifs Way Faces Order Speak Stuff Sound Stupid Strange Boring Make Sense

Author:Emily Blunt

“It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience.”

Ifs Way Film Watches Strange Overwhelming Festivals Screening Film Festivals

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.”

Has Beens Might Voice Imagine Strange Pounds Sock Puppets

Author:Benjamin Percy

“A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.”

People Should Made Two Real Simple Strange Involved Wedding Formal Ceremony Vow Solemn Real Questions Unison

Book:The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

Source: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.”

Thinking Kind Bits Middle Strange Mets Singing Balls Rebel Eyebrows Dressed Up Bowie

Author:Florence Welch

“The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.”

Thinking Should Information Strange Internet Healthy Encounters Comment Tickets Outlaw Manic Profanity Bummer

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.”

Stuff Differences Particular Strange Like You Links Precise Selective Detours

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.”

Giving Ideas Body Artist Found Names My Own Interesting Effects Objects College Strange Foreigners Making Up Found Objects

Author:Gavin Turk

“I wear what fits Ghostface; I'm not gonna wear anything that makes me look strange.”

Looks Strange Fit

Author:Ghostface Killah

“I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.”

Thinking World Kind Littles Real Happens House Bits Simple Fashion Strange Little Bit Fake Cleaning Fashion World Clean House Strange Times

Author:Alber Elbaz

“Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange history. But that wasn't the context that I learned it in, so the inherent friction between that history and the more humanist folk-y history wasn't in my conscience at all.”

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Author:Joanna Newsom

“I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice, but I never thought that anybody would have a problem with the harp. I just assumed... C'mon, it's a beautiful instrument.”

People Kind Problem Beautiful Difficult Voice Known Strange Instruments Reactions Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the somewhat futile attempt to explain them...it's my reason for living I guess...to ask 'why?'. I don't know what else to do with myself. In some strange way it's probably an attempt to understand myself and my own relationship to the world.”

People Knows World Way Trying Humans Reason Asks My Own Animal Strange Beast Fascinating Human Animal

Author:Andrew Neel

“In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.”

Mother Teach Cases Strange Mom Daughter Teenager Backwards Strange Things

Author:Laura Benanti

“My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the internet and found this was extremely common. There was this world where these debts were sold off by the banks for pennies on the dollar and bought and sold.”

World Wanted Mother Found Common This World Strange Internet Paid Dollars Debt Pennies Collectors

Author:Jake Halpern

“I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got. Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that. It's the people around me that have changed. I love when I go to a restaurant and I walk past, and everyone waves. That's always really funny. It's strange. It just goes to show that whatever plan you have for your life, you are wrong, a lot of times.”

People Stills Shows Wanted Past Girl Walks Plans Happened Changed Strange Normal Wave Actresses Restaurants Bus Subway Normal Life

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!”

People May Enjoy Strange Creator Instance Sense Of Humor Fleeting Beauty Of Life Destroyers Compost

Author:Sam Keen

“I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.”

Way Kind Hard Moments Certain Strange Flow Genre Bumps

Author:Edward Norton

“I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.”

Ifs Thinking Different Hard Character Stories Use Fiction Strange Fictional Character

Author:Marge Piercy

“I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.”

Thinking Way Writing Long Stills Book Dream Inspiration Happens Felt Strange Creating Hearing Long Book

Author:Alan Lightman

“My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel like I want to transfer it from the notebook to the page, I do, and then comes this very strange process which is difficult to describe in that I'll write until I get stuck or I can't go any further or I'm boring myself or whatever and then I might go to another poem.”

Ifs Want Feels Writing I Can Might Eye Process Difficult Strange Six Pages Boring Stuck Leafs Midnight Notebook Transfers Best Times

Author:Rita Dove

“People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.”

People Years Ideas Reason Dream Mankind Strange Planets Couple Thousand Destruction Disappear Seats Destroying Fades Thousand Years Fade Away

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Hollywood is so strange because a lot of times the battlefield is just a meeting. It's not necessarily like an audition. They've seen clips of you and they know that you can perform and it's a matter of "what is your take on a character"?”

Knows Matter Character Strange Hollywood Meetings Auditions Battlefields Clip

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“The trumpet player, Ronnie Hughes, has still got his chops today but for some strange reason the culture doesn't call him because he's 83-years-old. And these people are in their 70s and 80s and 90s and came with such verve every day and would still be shooting these 10 and 12 hour days. So, that in itself made this an extraordinarily special occasion for all of us. It wasn't a job for the crew after a few days, it took on another tone.”

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Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Body Cutting Strange Scratches Bumps Bruises Scabs

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.”

World Real Strange Return Essentials Normal My Family Profession Real World Normal Life Inner World

Author:Carl Jung

“Politics make strange bedfellows.”

Strange Bedfellows Strange Bedfellows

Author:Charles Dudley Warner

“Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.”

Should Writing Humans Space Effects Strange Creatures Humorous Aliens Space Aliens

Author:Will Shetterly

“In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.”

“Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.”

Way May Children Ideas Culture Strange Smart Adults Dumb Educate

Author:Marvin Minsky

“It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.”

Men Firsts Believe May Mean I Believe Poor Class Strange Raises Depressing Poor Man

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay

“In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.”

Firsts Facts Courses Strange Errors Exception Delightful Discussing

Book:Journeys in Scotland: Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, The Clyde: River and Firth

Source: Journeys in Scotland: Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, The Clyde: River and Firth

“Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.”

Writing Able Strange Expression Mathematical

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief.”

Men Belief Strange Kissing Contrary Contrary To Popular Belief Strange Man

Author:Madonna Ciccone