Top 100 An Outsider Quotes
#1. It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.
Tan Le
#2. The Trevanian Buff is a strange and wonderful creature: an outsider, a natural elitist, not so much a cynic as an idealist mugged by reality, not just one of those who march to a different drummer, but the solo drummer in a parade of one.
Trevanian
#3. I cared nothing; my point of view in that instance, as in all others like it, was, that if the paper chose to send an outsider and an ignoramus to criticise works of art - especially the works of a new and tentative and experimental school - then, on the head of the paper let the just doom fall.
Arthur Machen
#4. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
Ethan Embry
#5. In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
David LaChapelle
#6. I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.
Kumail Nanjiani
#7. My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.
Michael Burry
#8. 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
#9. The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.
Aaron Sorkin
#10. I would once again be an outsider, my nose pressed against the glass, watching the ball with no ticket to attend.
Alessandra Torre
#11. I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.
Chirlane McCray
#12. I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
Sadie Jones
#13. I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.
Joel Kinnaman
#14. The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.
J. Alexander Greenwood
#15. The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication.
David Pogue
#16. The size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider's measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
Mark Twain
#17. I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
Maggie Stiefvater
#18. To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.
Julian Fellowes
#19. If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.
Rudolf Carnap
#20. An outsider can see some things much better.
Anil Kapoor
#22. 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 Hallstrom
#23. The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.
Anne Rice
#24. I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.
Marcel Dzama
#25. As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
Halsey
#26. To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.
Tim Weiner
#28. There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.
Katrina Kaif
#29. I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
Anthony Browne
#30. I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.
John Oliver
#31. I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.
Paul Rhys
#32. I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that.
El-P
#33. I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
Rachel Sklar
#34. I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.
Eric Kripke
#35. Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.
Nick Lowe
#36. In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
Ray Bradbury
#37. I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.
Janis Ian
#38. I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.
Donald Trump
#39. I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.
Robert Downey Jr.
#40. I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
Jeremy Paxman
#41. I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider...
Natasha Trethewey
#42. I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
Zooey Deschanel
#43. Anna ... envied Joan's deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she'd been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.
Nevada Barr
#44. It's quite clear : an outsider can, on principle, only value foreign literature that translates well; the truly great artists of language and the fecund experimenters are inaccessible to him; are usually unknown to him in fact !
Arno Schmidt
#45. I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
Xavier Niel
#46. If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.
Tim Burton
#47. Not from here is one of the most damning insults that can be tossed, carrying with it the eternal question mark of what an outsider might be carrying inside of them, a mental or biological dark passenger that will rear up and bite your ass thirty years down the road.
Mindy McGinnis
#48. When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.
Meg Cabot
#49. I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.
Cherie Lunghi
#50. I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
Robert Crumb
#51. I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
Colm Toibin
#52. Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
Jesse Eisenberg
#53. The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
Paul Theroux
#54. As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
Ben Mendelsohn
#55. Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider.
Graham Moore
#56. Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
Matt Drudge
#57. I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.
Meera Syal
#58. Well -- I'm an outsider to the end of my days!
Thomas Hardy
#59. I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.
Henry Thomas
#60. I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.
Bennett Miller
#61. As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
Shawn Ashmore
#62. In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.
Michelle Malkin
#63. He didn't want an outsider judging his family. That was his job.
Toni Morrison
#64. I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
Richard Grossman
#65. Because what else was there for me - an aberration, an untouchable, an outsider? What could I say when I was alone at night and the shadows came? How else could I calm the thud of my beating heart but with the words: This is my fate.
Leslye Walton
#66. You can live here all your life, and still be considered an outsider.
E.D. Rea
#67. My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.
Leila Aboulela
#68. It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
Chloe Sevigny
#69. In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.
Riz Ahmed
#70. I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.
Joan Rivers
#71. When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.
Moby
#72. I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.
Lily James
#73. The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.
Dan Chaon
#74. I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye ... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being ... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.
Jeff Lindsay
#75. Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
Aasif Mandvi
#76. I know what it feels like to be an outsider.
Judith Light
#77. 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
#78. If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
Anderson Cooper
#79. I find myself changing my entire lifestyle every three years or so, and I'm comfortable in being an outsider. I have grown up like that.
Poorna Jagannathan
#80. The extreme disparity between the outsider's and insider's perspectives arises because they have vastly different conceptions of time. Although the point is far from obvious, we'll now see what appears as endless time to an outsider appears as endless space, at each moment of time, to an insider.
Brian Greene
#81. That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
Felicia Day
#82. Conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#83. One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#84. 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
#85. I've been an outsider all my life. It's been kind of hard, but I like that way of living.
Haruki Murakami
#86. The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.
Clara E. Laughlin
#88. Everybody can relate to being an outsider, having to deal with that, and having to wrestle with how people view them.
LeCrae
#89. She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.
Will Weaver
#90. I've been such an outsider my whole life.
Thom Mayne
#91. If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.
Mark McKinnon
#92. As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders ... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
Maggie Stiefvater
#93. I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#94. I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such a bore.
Graham Greene
#95. When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
G. Willow Wilson
#96. Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.
Graham Moore
#97. Im not a celebrity. I dont take myself too seriously. I know where I stand in the food chain. And no matter how much of an insider I ever become or am, Ill still always be an outsider.
Perez Hilton
#98. Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders.
Paul Graham
#99. 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.
Learned Hand
#100. I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
J. August Richards
