“Even nowadays some people see me as a "vreemde eend in de bijt" [translated literally as the strange duck in the pond. In other words, an outsider].” PeopleStrangeDucksOutsidersPonds Author:Eddy de Clercq
“I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of, I think, a safety net that we had, and it's going to be kind of strange not going back to set with these people that I've become so familiar with.” PeopleThinkingKindCharacterStrangeSafetyFamiliarBe KindTwilightSafety NetPortraying Author:Ashley Greene
“I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].” PeopleCharacterStrangeGrewGrew UpDoctors Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.” PeopleKnowsMenStrangeDoctorsSpidersSpider Man Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“You know, it's not my film [Valerian], it's really their film. It's very strange. And maybe because it's more when you comes to the Marvel films it's way much more organized and plan, you know, they planned. Okay, we have Thor here, we have this and then we do The Avengers, and then we group. You know, it's much more organized. So maybe there is a little less freedom at the end for the creative people. Where I did the entire opposite. I let them help me, you know. So that's also why maybe they were so involved.” PeopleKnowsWayLittlesEndsHelpingFilmCreativePlansGroupsStrangeInvolvedOkayOppositesOrganizedHelp MeCreative PeopleAvengers Author:Luc Besson
“I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.” PeopleKnowsDoeMadeGenerationsStrangeProudHeroDrugMajorsPressesHip HopHipsHopsGood PeopleOnly TimeMafiaCrooksGood Business Author:Nikki Giovanni
“It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.” PeopleExampleStrangeChineseBordersKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanVolcanoesBirthplace Author:Werner Herzog
“I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.” PeopleFirstsEndsStoriesWantedLastsMotherHateReadingNovelStrangeHabitPagesI HateReading Habits Author:Alice Hoffman
“I had some people who disagreed with me here or there - but nothing as strong as I've received, you know, coming to America. That is the irony of life, so I guess - I always tell people - I go I feel like in a strange way, I'm home. You know, this doesn't shock me. This is just - I've come a long way to be in a place that is extremely familiar to me.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsLongHomeAmericaStrongStrangeFamiliarIronyShockLong WayIrony Of LifeComing To America Author:Trevor Noah
“I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can convince people that the problem is not coming from the top but is, rather, being created by the people who are being oppressed.” PeopleHumansSelfProblemBrainStrangeHatredConvinceOppressedHuman BrainSelf Hatred Author:Trevor Noah
“It's a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.” PeoplePaySituationStrangeHow To Be Happy Author:Quentin Crisp
“The strange part of MMA is that you lose one or two fights and people start to question you but he was on top for so long and it was purely his striking that made him so good. Nobody can step backwards and knock someone out as well as Chuck Liddell can.” PeopleWellsLongMadeTwoFightingLosesStepsStrangeMmaBackwardsChuckChuck Liddell Author:Shawn Tompkins
“The first time I had work in a public space it felt very strange to see people that I didn't know looking and, and presumably commenting on, my work. Nowadays, I'm a bit more fatalistic - they either like the work or they don't and there's not a lot I can do about that. The trick seems to be not to get too pissed on open nights so that I can answer any questions without making a fool of myself. Doesn't always work!” PeopleKnowsFirstsI CanSeemsNightFeltBitsCan DoSpaceAnswersStrangeFoolFirst TimeTricks Author:Horace Panter
“I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindPersonsShowsBigsArtistRealizingDealsFireStrangeHugePerceptionTunesEmbarrassingBig DealCocoonsItunesArcadesShow TunesArcade Fire Author:Anna Kendrick
“Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.” PeopleIfsWayTryingTwoDifferentTogetherArtistPiecesSeeingStreetsNew YorkStrangeFitMusicianSettingLike MeSettingsUncomfortableSongwritersPuzzlesTransientJust LiveTwo Of UsJigsawJigsaw PuzzlesPuzzle PieceBusking Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.” PeopleYearsKindCountryPlayStrangeMarriedCatVillain Author:Christopher Walken
“I'm a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psychoÂlogical apparatus of Americans.” PeopleLittlesDifferentWholeBigsSchoolAmericaStrangeLoversHigh SchoolLogicalGeographyDifferent PlacePsycho Author:George Saunders
“This sounds strange to many people, but I work out for exactly 16 minutes every day, and do so at maximum speed by running 2.5 miles. This keeps me healthy without taking up too much time so I can stay focused on other things. It's one of the most efficient things I do each day.” PeopleI CanRunningSoundToo MuchMinutesStrangeHealthyWork OutFocusedSpeedMilesEach DayEfficientMaximumStay Focused Author:Luis von Ahn
“Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.” PeopleYearsHappensActorsOne ThingFrontsStrangeProfessionThings HappenClicks Author:Viola Davis
“If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.” PeopleIfsStrangeWillingModeration Author:Plato
“I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.” PeopleIfsTwoDoneStoriesStrangeElementsYeahCombinationHolocaustIrresistibleExecutionersHolocaust Deniers Author:Errol Morris
“We need a whole bunch of books about people of color, kids on the spectrum, etc. It's strange that we have a population of school children that is majority nonwhite but their books are majority white.” PeopleNeedsChildrenBookWholeKidsSchoolWhiteStrangeColorMajorityPopulationBunchEtcSpectrum Author:Kekla Magoon
“I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.” PeopleTodaySoundLevelsTechnologyMilitaryStrangeMusicianSmartProgramArguingTechnologicalExceedBluntSmart PeopleSophisticationReally Smart Author:Jaron Lanier
“I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as real as Canada. It's a self-centeredness that's a very strange thing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMayRealSelfDifferencesStrangeCanadaElsewhereStrange ThingsSelf CenterednessCenteredness Author:Jane Jacobs
“Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.” PeopleKnowsWellsLooksMadeDoneDreamFilmStrangeStandardsLook UpLoadLots Of MoneyStrange Dreams Author:Shahrukh Khan
“As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple of swerves off the path, we need to look back and see that we've always also been a racist country and have had a tendency towards banal aggressiveness. The thing that's alarming is not so much that a few people in America at the top are initiating these crazy policies, but that the middle is willing to go there too. There's a strange movement of the middle to this position of banal aggressiveness.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksCountryAmericaPathCrazyMiddlePolicyMovementPositionStrangeWillingCoupleTendenciesRacistRighteousAggressivenessSwerve Author:George Saunders
“People do need a social license to go, "Ha ha ha," and have a good time. It's a strange thing. There's a lot of social ritual around comedy and laughter. It's a bonding experience for groups, but nobody can tell you much about how funny somebody is. Sometimes people just need to be in a group and be laughing together, just like they need to be in a group in watching some really terrifying film.” PeopleNeedsSometimesTogetherFilmSocialLaughingComedyGroupsStrangeLaughterGood TimesRitualLicenseHaving A Good TimeStrange ThingsBondingLaughing Together Author:Dylan Moran
“I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.” PeopleHeartLongHappensDiesProcessDifficultStrangeEvolutionLong TimeForgivenessForgivingPainfulLong Time Ago Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“I feel like you have to earn something with an audience. If I just did it now, I think producers on any superhero movie, I think they wouldn't trust me to do it the way I'd want to do it, because I'd want to do something basically really strange. I think you have to earn that freedom to do stuff like that. So I think, if I keep kind of chipping away, trying to do good movies and interesting, strange movies then people will eventually trust you to do that on a bigger scale.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantFeelsTryingKindStuffInterestingAudienceStrangeLike YouBiggerScalesProducersSuperheroTrust MeGood MovieChipping Away Author:Robert Pattinson
“I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard. Character-based poems are not weird or new by any stretch but they feel strange and new because the atmosphere is one in which no one does that. People always talk about, and with good reason, poetry's unpopularity. When people say that they forget or they brush aside the fact that in the middle part of the last century poetry was immensely popular. Dylan Thomas was basically a rock star; so was Anne Sexton.” PeopleReasonCharacterForgetStrangeAbsenceAtmosphereDylanRock Star Author:Shane McCrae
“I love the sport, I haven't made millions off of it so maybe that's why I just feel like a normal person, I just feel regular, so that when I walk out of my house now with people requesting autographs in the middle of Albertson's aisles. I realize that I did go to the Olympics and did come back with a gold medal, but this is all strange. Somebody pinch me please, because I'm just here on my couch at night watching the Olympics now like everyone else in the world.” PeopleWorldNightHouseSportsRealizingStrangeGoldMedal Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.” PeopleTogetherFilmWaitingEnvironmentStrangePhotographyExpectationsExcitedComplainingMediocreGreat Expectations Author:Ethan Hawke
“Always being on the move has strange consequences. I meet so many amazing people, for a night, or sometimes just a few days. And I know they are not going to become people I communicate with every day. Life becomes very ephemeral.” PeopleSometimesMovingNightStrangeConsequenceCommunicateAmazing People Author:Gaspar Claus
“That really sums up the strange bluntness that a really prime German interview can have. They're really interested in your cultural velocity in this way that I don't think people in the United States even necessarily think about alternative-rock bands. So it's not like we're against regular rock. We're not like a battling army shaking our weapons against The Rolling Stones.” PeopleThinkingStrangeArmyShakingRolling Stones Author:John Flansburgh
“People used to think I was so strange because my toiletry bag used to contain so many grooming items and cosmetics and stuff. But I think it's more acceptable these day for guys to take care of themselves. I think it's becoming more commonplace, not just for sportsmen, but for all guys to take care of themselves.” PeopleThinkingCareGuyStrangeTake CareGrooming Author:Nick Youngquest
“If I say any word, like, "Sit next to me." There is a chemistry inside of my brain and your brain that is figuring out what that means and turning that request into action. The brain is designed in a way to enable us to translate these strange interaction codes that people have with each other into something that can manifest a whole company's success. That's so extraordinary and that's what's going on. Everybody in the world needs to know that, in the whole planet. I just talked to somebody who studies cosmoses. She said, "Cosmoses need this."” PeopleWorldMeanActionBrainStudyStrangeExtraordinaryCodeChemistryManifestTranslate Author:Judith E. Glaser
“Every city is different for playing, actually. That's one of the hardest things: to play abroad. Because sometimes you know your city and your audience and you know what to play and what people will dance to. And later, you go to a place and you think this thing will work and you start playing and it doesn't work, and you have to be able to go to another side just to try to find what people like or whatever, or, like, try to make people dance as they are more used to. I don't know, it's quite strange - people dance in different parts of Europe in a different way.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentSometimesAudienceStrange Author:John Talabot
“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests, which has worked time and time again with PEN.” PeopleSpiritStrangeNegativeViolentUncomfortablePens Author:Salman Rushdie
“I think I write mostly about death and so it is interesting to hear how often people think I'm writing about pregnancy and birth. Though of course they are two sides of the same coin. Both when I was pregnant and now as a mother, I am consumed with thoughts of death. This is a strange role in parenting. The death guardian.” PeopleThinkingWritingMotherInterestingStrangeBirthPregnancyPregnantGuardian Author:Samantha Hunt
“People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalHeartPersonsBookMotivationalBoysHistoryStrangeGlassesDesksJarsHappy HalloweenStrange Person Author:Stephen King
“I wanted to create a believable feeling for 18th Century reality in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. I didn't want this typical film feel of strange people in strange costumes, not really knowing what to do or how to move. If you put an 18th Century costume on Alan Rickman, it looks like he's been wearing it forever because he inhabits the stuff. He is a character that can really travel in time as an actor and transform into this 18th Century person with seemingly no effort.” PeopleCharacterFeelingsRealityFilmMovingEffortForeverStrangeMurderer18th Century Author:Tom Tykwer
“For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.” PeopleComedyStrangeDepressing Author:Zach Woods
“Screenwriting is definitely the majority of my time, but I do still act when stuff comes up. I do a few jobs a year.People ask me that all the time about written something for yourself to star in, and it's strange. I just approach it as two separate careers.” PeopleStrangeAsk MeScreenwriting Author:Danny Strong
“I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange place - real southern. I formed my first band that year and we just started playing my songs live. It was way in for me to get to know people and to really feel at home there - through music.” PeopleRealHomeSchoolSongStudentsStrangeHigh SchoolSouthern Author:Anna Ternheim
“I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.” PeopleThinkingChildrenActorsStrange Author:Ben Kingsley
“People tend to wear a suit without a tie but it's a strange look, there's something missing. Either you wear a blazer and slacks, or you wear a suit and tie. It is challenging today to dress in an appropriate way.” PeopleTodayChallengesMissingStrange Author:Charles Finch
“I just thought that was so interesting, that people that deal with bodies on a much more corporeal level, like the attendants, had a whole different set of criteria than doctors, and that they had this secret knowledge of something. I thought it was strange and interesting, so I took it to my script.” PeopleDifferentInterestingSecretStrange Author:Tamara Jenkins
“A large part of California is a sensual state. It has a huge range of geographical features and in addition to the deserts and the mountains and the huge coast line. The fact that we don't have harsh seasons, like they have in the East, means you can have convertible cars. There's more sunshine, per year here, and it affects people psychologically and physically. I think California has always been an attractive place for many, a lot of strange cults have been here over the years. Again, it's an experimental place.” PeopleThinkingMeanCarStrangeMountainSensualAttractiveSunshineHarshCult Author:Michael C. McMillen
“I do think it's interesting when people are born into families that at one point had huge amounts of money and that money has kind of vanished over the generations and they're sort of the last vestiges. You see that these people live really quite modestly and yet, somehow the way the clothes fit them, they still have some kind of strange genetic advantage over the rest of us. There's always these weird things in which you detect the legacy. There's a pair of cufflinks that you look at and go, "Oh, my God! These had to come from the Romanovs."” PeopleThinkingKindInterestingStrangeFitLegacy Author:Lawrence Douglas
“The thing with America is that... however you want to denigrate them for being crass or whatever, with a film that they like and think is well written, well-made and is popular, they actually want to work with those people and want to follow that, whereas I've had nothing coming in from the UK... nothing at all. Whether that sums up the state of the industry now, I don't know. But it's strange.” PeopleThinkingFilmStrangeWell Written Author:John Michael McDonagh