Top 100 Outsider Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
Abigail Washburn
#6. If outsider perspectives made 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Dark Knight' into fantastic franchises, imagine what would happen if you brought in the perspectives of women and people of color.
Annalee Newitz
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
Anderson Cooper
#12. No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
Alexander Cockburn
#13. 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
#14. When you succeed, everyone wants to be part of it; but when you fail everyone seems outsider.
M.F. Moonzajer
#15. I know what it feels like to be an outsider.
Judith Light
#16. Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
Aasif Mandvi
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.
Lily James
#20. I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'
Jill Soloway
#21. 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
#22. I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.
Joan Rivers
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.
Mary Allsebrook
#26. 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
#27. You can live here all your life, and still be considered an outsider.
E.D. Rea
#28. A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.
Kirk Hammett
#29. 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
#30. You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself. I have learned this late in life but not too late. It's never too late.
Michael Connelly
#31. 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
#32. He's not from here, that's the thing," Cub said.
"Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?
Barbara Kingsolver
#33. He didn't want an outsider judging his family. That was his job.
Toni Morrison
#34. 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
#35. I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music ... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'
Jenny Lewis
#36. As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
Shawn Ashmore
#37. I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.
Howie Mandel
#38. I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
Rainn Wilson
#39. I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.
Bennett Miller
#40. 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
#41. Well -- I'm an outsider to the end of my days!
Thomas Hardy
#42. 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
#43. Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
Matt Drudge
#44. Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider.
Graham Moore
#45. As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
Ben Mendelsohn
#46. 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
#47. Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
Jesse Eisenberg
#48. 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
#49. I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
Robert Crumb
#50. 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
#51. When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.
Meg Cabot
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
Xavier Niel
#55. I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.
Marcel Dzama
#56. Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#57. My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.
Michael Burry
#58. Over time, big industries tend to get flabby and uncreative and risk-averse - and if the right outsider company has the means and creativity to come at the industry with a fresh perspective and rethink the whole thing, there's often a huge opportunity there.
Tim Urban
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. I would once again be an outsider, my nose pressed against the glass, watching the ball with no ticket to attend.
Alessandra Torre
#62. I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.
Chirlane McCray
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.
Aleksandar Hemon
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.
Scott Kahn
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.
Julian Fellowes
#73. 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
#74. An outsider can see some things much better.
Anil Kapoor
#76. 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
#77. Girls on the other hand, have always come easy. I don't know why that is, exactly. Maybe it's the outsider vibe and a well-placed brooding look.
Kendare Blake
#78. Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.
Nimrat Kaur
#79. The perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.
Douglas Kennedy
#80. I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.
Cillian Murphy
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
Anne Rice
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider...
Natasha Trethewey
#87. A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.
Howard Raiffa
#88. I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
Jeremy Paxman
#89. I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.
Robert Downey Jr.
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
Ray Bradbury
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand.
Michel Faber
#96. I've always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I'm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.
Sara Quin
#97. 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
#99. 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
#100. To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.
Tim Weiner
