“I’ve always been an outsider.”
― Aisha Tyler
“TV is a medium where I’ve been an outsider for the most part.”
― Alan Menken
“If I’m kind of an outsider, it just happened that way, and people responded to it.”
― Alessia Cara
“Being an outsider helps breed comedy.”
― Alex Borstein
“Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my limbic system.”
― Alexandra Fuller
“Every writer is an outsider.”
― Andrew Sean Greer
“I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.”
― Angelina Jolie
“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
“I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.”
― Ayanna Pressley
“It’s good to be an outsider.”
― Ayushmann Khurrana
“I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.”
― Barry Unsworth
“I think I approach things with an outsider’s perspective.”
― Bennett Miller
“I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don’t belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don’t fit, coupled with huge ambitions.”
― Bennett Miller
“I guess I was always an outsider and some kind of anarchist.”
― Brie Larson
“Where I’m an outsider is, I’m not a career politician.”
― Bruce Rauner
“I have an interest in the outsider.”
― Celeste Ng
“I’ve always been interested in the outsider.”
― Charles de Lint
“I’ve been an outsider all my life – I don’t care.”
― Chloe Sevigny
“I don’t look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.”
― Chris Stapleton
“I don’t think I’m an outsider at all.”
― Christina Ricci
“I feel as though there’s a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.”
― Claire Messud
“In Geneva, I was seen as an outsider. In the U.S., I was considered Eurotrash. And in London, I’m seen as an American.”
― Danny Rimer
“I’m always thinking as an outsider, and I’m always mindful of whether a company can be impactful on a global basis. Frankly, I’m paranoid about anyone anywhere who could be a competitive threat.”
― Danny Rimer
“The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.”
― Dulquer Salmaan
“To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.”
― Edie Campbell
“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
“It wasn’t easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.”
― Esha Gupta
“Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.”
― Ethan Embry
“I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.”
― Ethel Waters
“I’ve always been an outsider to some extent.”
― G-Eazy
“When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride – I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.”
― G. Willow Wilson
“I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.”
― Garry Wills
“I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.”
― Gary Sherman
“I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.”
― Graham Moore
“Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider’s outsider.”
― Graham Moore
“I’ve always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.”
― Isaac Marion
“I always felt an outsider.”
― J. K. Rowling
“I’m an outsider.”
― Jack Levine
“I was not a punk rocker, absolutely not, but I certainly knew quite a lot of them, and I definitely went to the Mab – it was raw, interesting intense scene, so I was very drawn to it, but I was a total outsider.”
― Jennifer Egan
“I’ve always felt myself to be an outsider. I’ve always felt awkward.”
― Jeremy Paxman
“I’m a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn’t have a privileged background at all like many in business.”
― Jeremy Strong
“Everyone’s a geek in some way or other. Everyone’s an outsider.”
― Jesse Eisenberg
“I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they’re ‘other.’”
― Jill Soloway
“I’m in nobody’s circle, I’ve always been an outsider.”
― Joan Rivers
“I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.”
― Joanne Harris
“I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.”
― John Hurt
“It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.”
― John Oliver
“I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.”
― Jon Heder
“I know what it feels like to be an outsider.”
― Judith Light
“I’ve always been an outsider. I’ve always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn’t come around very often.”
― Juliette Lewis
“It kind of feels cool to be the outsider.”
― Kane Brown
“It’s not easy for an outsider to understand this industry.”
― Kapil Sharma
“I was a complete outsider in high school.”
― Karen O
“I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings
“I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.”
― Kristen Johnston
“The industry has been very warm and welcoming, especially since I am an outsider.”
― Kriti Sanon
“Jews had an outsider’s eye on a lot of Western tradition.”
― M. H. Abrams
“As a kid I just felt like an outsider.”
― Marilyn Manson
“As an outsider, I have to say that the Premier League is a very attractive league.”
― Mario Gotze
“Because I have success, it doesn’t mean I’m part of the mainstream. I’m still an outsider.”
― Matt Drudge
“When I came into improv, it was almost like an outsider art form.”
― Matt Walsh
“I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.”
― Mika
“I do know what it’s like to be an outsider.”
― Milana Vayntrub
“Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.”
― Mitski
“I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts.”
― Morten Tyldum
“I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal – and show how important that is.”
― Morten Tyldum
“I do have an outsider’s complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don’t have the stomach for it.”
― Natasha Lyonne
“I’m both an insider and an outsider.”
― Nell Scovell
“I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.”
― Nick Cave
“However popular you are, you still feel like an outsider.”
― Noma Dumezweni
“I never felt like an outsider in the industry.”
― Nora Fatehi
“An outsider’s point of view is always handy.”
― Pat Oliphant
“I think having an outsider’s viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.”
― Paul Merton
“I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it.”
― Peter Bergen
“I’ve felt like an outsider. I’ve had to struggle.”
― Peter Dinklage
“I’ve always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I’d feel a complete foreigner.”
― Peter Doig
“Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.”
― Phyllis Bottome
“In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.”
― Rhys Ifans
“I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.”
― Richard Desmond
“You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.”
― Robert Frost
“I think people realize I’m truly an outsider.”
― Ron Johnson
“People oftentimes refer to me as ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’ So, I’m Mr. Johnson. I’m a complete outsider.”
― Ron Johnson
“I was an outsider. I looked different, and I felt really voiceless as a kid.”
― Sabaa Tahir
“I don’t think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.”
― Sam Neill
“I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.”
― Shahzia Sikander
“I guess I’ve always been something of an outsider.”
― Shaun Evans
“I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.”
― Shaun King
“I’ve always been an outsider; a displaced person.”
― Siobhan Fahey
“Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.”
― Stephanie Savage
“The earliest dictionaries were collections of criminal slang, swapped amongst ne’er-do-wells as a means of evading the authorities or indeed any outsider who might threaten the trade.”
― Susie Dent
“I’ve been such an outsider my whole life.”
― Thom Mayne
“I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.”
― Thom Mayne
“I always felt like the ‘outsider’ kind of kid.”
― Tom King
“I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.”
― Vera Wang
“Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.”
― Ville Valo
“The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.”
― Wes Anderson
“I’m an outsider, I guess.”
― William Klein
“I’m still an outsider in the hip hop community. I don’t even know if I’m making hip hop anymore.”
― Yung Lean
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