Outsider Quotes

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

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.

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.

An outsider can see some things much better.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

I'm an outsider.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

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.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.