Top 100 Very Strange Quotes
#1. In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.
Cory Michael Smith
#2. Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
Zoe Saldana
#3. Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.
Bo Burnham
#4. If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
John Polkinghorne
#5. I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
John Sandford
#6. Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence , they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you.
M.F. Moonzajer
#7. My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated.
Emilia Fox
#8. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#9. Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
Olivier Martinez
#10. To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.
Mario Batali
#11. It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
Kelsey Grammer
#12. You know, I have guys that are almost stalkers ... it is very strange. I had this one guy that e-mailed me off my site, and thought we were boyfriend and girlfriend. He then came to my house in London, I do not know how he found it.
Caprice Bourret
#13. Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.
Ted Corbitt
#14. The first children of my age that I knew were in kindergarten. They seemed very strange, they laughed and talked and seemed happy. I didn't like them.
Charles Bukowski
#16. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.
Michel Legrand
#17. There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.
Shimon Attie
#18. That's why we're here".
"So you can murder me and steal Marshmallow?"
...
He blinked. "Steal what?"
"Never mind."
You are a very strange girl,
Courtney Allison Moulton
#19. Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all ... Everybody really, really likes everybody else.
Lizzy Caplan
#20. It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
Daniel Keys Moran
#21. Can I ever come back here' he asked, and the Woodsman said something very strange in reply.
'Most people come back here,' he said, 'in the end
John Connolly
#22. I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
Kat Graham
#23. It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
Richard Llewellyn
#24. When I went in for the [ Embraced] DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.
Brigid Brannagh
#26. I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking about animals that people claim have come from outer space, and boy, they're weird!
Robin Leach
#27. When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is very flattering but strange, as if the characters have come to life again without you knowing.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#28. It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!
Walid Muallem
#29. I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.
Luke Evans
#30. He goggled at her as if she'd said something very strange about beetroots.
Douglas Adams
#31. Oscore is my favorite model," he says. "He has a very strange face. I don't know if you notice. God was very drunk when he made him. A little bit of this. A little bit of that. Brown eye. Green eye. Crooked nose, crooked mouth. Lunatic smile. Chipped tooth. Scar here, scar there. It is a puzzle.
Jandy Nelson
#32. Very strange!" he said to himself, vacantly. "It's like a scene in a novel - it's like nothing in real life." He
Wilkie Collins
#33. I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
Patrick DeWitt
#34. You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.
Corey Taylor
#35. I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know.
Richard Grimes
#36. He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
Carrie Fisher
#37. Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.
Bonnie Langford
#38. I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.
Phil Collins
#39. I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.
Philip Larkin
#40. Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.
Adam Gopnik
#41. I'm just getting used to all the interviews and promo things, I'm slowly learning. It's very strange.
Alex Parks
#42. 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.
Colin Firth
#43. I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
Ted Cruz
#44. L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
Zach Galligan
#45. I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.
Mel Brooks
#46. The two boys stood and looked at each other. There was no amusement and no scorn in Attean's eyes. How very strange, Matt thought. After all the brave deeds he had dreamed of doing to win this boy's respect, he had gained it at last by doing nothing, just by staying here and refusing to leave.
Elizabeth George Speare
#47. If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
Christian Louboutin
#48. In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
Werner Herzog
#49. Be very careful what you say. Daddy's being very strange about pussies at the moment.' Orla
Carole Matthews
#50. Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me."
Lady Alice Rowhedge
Norah Lofts
#51. Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.
Alia Shawkat
#52. It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.
Cornelius Plantinga
#53. I have a boyfriend now. A real one. We're totally dating, it's very strange.
Michael Chabon
#54. It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.
Isabelle Huppert
#55. Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one.
Michael Montoure
#56. In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.
Midge Ure
#57. I like doing the editorial stuff because it's nice to do something that's more me. But modeling for brands and the things to make money ... I guess I don't really like being the mannequin. It's a very strange concept.
Dylan Penn
#58. I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.
Steve Carell
#59. I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.
Leon Redbone
#60. I have a PC because I don't know how to use a Mac. Actors always have Macs with them, and when I try to use someone else's, I can't get the hang of it. It's very strange; I don't like it.
Kimberley Nixon
#61. My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
Jonathan Winters
#62. I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange--a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking. ~Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson
#63. Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.
Edgar Wright
#64. The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth ... But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling
#65. Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.
Gore Verbinski
#66. Yes, of course," said Kinderman. "It's very strange. But then it leaves us
William Peter Blatty
#67. Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#68. When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
Viggo Mortensen
#69. Recently I have done some circles that are almost that large and I've come all the way around after walking for an hour and I have hit the other side exactly. I mean exactly the right spot which is very strange. Believe me it's very, very strange.
Jim Denevan
#70. I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.
Anthony Hopkins
#71. The word 'weird' is never spoken or thought of by the Fey, as to them there is nothing very strange when you take it as it is.
Gabriel Brunsdon
#72. Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity ...
Louis Aragon
#73. Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.
Philip Glenister
#74. Of course, I always knew I was Romeo, but I had never thought much about Giulietta before. Now I started thinking about her, and I realized that it was a very strange thing to be Romeo, when there is no Giulietta in the world. Strange and lonely.
Anne Fortier
#75. It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
#76. Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
Zac Efron
#77. Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.
Platon
#78. It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.
Kaskade
#79. Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
William Congreve
#80. It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#81. I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.
Deborah Cox
#82. You know, this is a very strange phenomenon. I keep reading that in American newspapers, and I keep reading extensive speculations. I meet with the Chinese leaders periodically, and while I don't say they've endorsed the missile shield, it has not been in the forefront of their discussions.
Henry A. Kissinger
#83. We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
Jaye Davidson
#84. Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.
Frederick Lenz
#85. It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.
Emile Durkheim
#86. I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.
Nick Cave
#87. Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.
Alexandre Aja
#88. Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.
Carlos Castaneda
#89. Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.
Deepa Mehta
#90. For someone like me,
it is a very strange habit to write in a diary.
Not only that I have never written before,
but it strikes me that later neither I,
nor anyone else,
will care for the outpouring
of a thirteen year old schoolgirl.
Anne Frank
#91. It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
Germaine Greer
#92. In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Billy Joel
#93. There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
Anthony Horowitz
#94. And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.
Nobuo Uematsu
#95. On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
Edwidge Danticat
#96. After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.
Diet Eman
#97. Japanese medical people are traditionally very strange and creepily poetic.
David Cronenberg
#98. He said, "my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased."
Jonathan Swift
#99. Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.
Isamu Akasaki
#100. I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.
Todd Rundgren
