Outsiders Quotes

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

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.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

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.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider.

If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

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.

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

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

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.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

I always felt like something of an outsider.

But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

I'm an outsider.

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

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

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

In preseason camp, there are no friends.

when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

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.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

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

In Hollywood, they think they know it all.

You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer.

My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.

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

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

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.