Strange Things Quotes

Ewan McGregor and I ate a lot of strange things on our motorcycle journey around the world, but the strangest had to be a meal we had in Mongolia.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

When you bring God into politics, very strange things happen.

I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.

I never wanted to become an actress because I’d read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Exercising power can do strange things to people. You can become convinced that you’re irreplaceable. You can become convinced that you’re always right. And I think the danger is the longer you stay in power, the more likely that is to happen.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.

I love Hugh Laurie, but I don’t want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don’t. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that’s held me back.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.

I don’t know if I was born weird. I think it’s just that I was exposed to very strange things from a very early age by my brothers.

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, ’cause some strange things happen. I’ve seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

We’ve all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

I do a lot of strange things.

With film, it’s all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character‘s feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you’re being honest about where you are as a person.

Imagine people calling you to find out if you’re dead. I’ve led a real crazy life at times, and I’ve had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I’ll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was ‘carrion,’ before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don’t have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things… like photo shoots!

When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you’re vulnerable, you’ll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

What’s lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it’s inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.

I’ve eaten a lot of strange things. I’ve eaten something called a razor clam. They just call it that because it likes like the old-school razors in the old-school barber shops. I can’t even think of some of the things I’ve tried.

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

The media do strange things.

One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

On ‘Scrubs,’ I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that.

I don’t have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.