On The Outside Looking In Quotes

#1. Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect.

Marc Webb

#2. I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life.

Adam Hicks

#3. We might have been on the outside looking in at our own families and our own lives, but at least we could stand outside together.

Jay Crownover

#4. I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

Wes Craven

#6. When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

Doug Flutie

#7. You've really never been the guy on the outside looking in, have you?

Kim Dare

#8. With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

Andrea Arnold

#9. I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

Michael Douglas

#10. And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk out loud the way I write things down. I wish I didn't always feel like I was on the outside, looking in like a Peeping Tom.

Jacqueline Woodson

#11. Innately, the Old Soul carries a sense of world-wariness as he stands on the outside, looking in. As an observer, the Old Soul like the Steppenwolf, feels an all-pervading sense of alienation. He is the ultimate Outsider who is both in the world, but not quite of the world at the same time.

Aletheia Luna

#12. So why did I feel like I was on the outside looking in again? Tossed back on the dusty shelf, labeled, "just not good enough.

Cat Porter

#13. We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

John Zorn

#14. I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

Victor Cruz

#15. For millions on the outside looking in, this is where they want to live - America.

Mike Barnicle

#16. He was on the outside, looking in.

C.L.Stone

#17. I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

Joseph Barbera

#18. I feel myself retreating to someplace deep inside. It is a pitiful kind of childhood, to know that no one loves you or is taking care of you, to always be on the outside looking in.

Christina Baker Kline

#19. I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

Mark Haddon

#20. 'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

Michelle Dockery

#21. I'm no longer on the outside looking in, but on the inside looking around. This new vantage point makes all the difference. It's amazing how a change of perspective can change a life.

A.J. Compton

#22. I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

Jodi Picoult

#23. Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

Chris Gethard

#24. I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.

Padgett Powell

#25. This is the place of nightmares in so many ways, but there's nightmares on the outside, too, and one day, when you're not even looking for it, you'll find something perfect in here, and you'll feel whole. Hold onto that.

Ashley Newell

#26. I've often felt unattractive or different looking. As I've grown up, I've felt more comfortable in my own skin. It may sound cliche, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

Angelina Jolie

#27. Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.

Molly Keane

#28. Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.

Jon Anderson

#29. The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.

Dwight Howard

#30. Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that man is an inescapable part of all nature, that its welfare is his welfare, that to survive, he cannot continue acting and regarding himself as a spectator looking on from somewhere outside.

Fred Bodsworth

#31. A Christian wife who may be looking good on the outside, but who cuts her husband with her words, runs him down to her friends and family, and dishonors him in the children's presence is not beautiful by God's definition.

Tony Evans

#32. If you grow up between cultures, if you get accustomed to traveling, it's easy to find yourself always on the outside of things, looking in. This can be ideal for a writer - or a spy; you've always got, analytically, a ticket out.

Pico Iyer

#33. Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I'm standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen.

Brene Brown

#34. I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

Dick Francis

#35. He came in looking so rough on the outside, but there was a real sadness in his eyes. I just wanted to comfort him. Then he looked at me and - I was on fire. I've never felt that way before. It doesn't matter that I don't even know him.

Ruth Cardello

#36. All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to peanut-gallery it up: The closest they were going to get to the octagon was standing on the outside of the chicken wire looking in.

J.R. Ward

#37. From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out.

Belle Malory

#38. We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

Helen Lynch

#39. We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

Jenji Kohan