Outsider Quotes
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
Karen Joy Fowler -
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
Xavier Niel
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I'm an outsider.
Jack Levine -
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
G. Willow Wilson -
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.
Larry McMurtry -
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
Sade Adu -
I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
Vera Wang -
To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
Edie Campbell
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I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.
Gary Sherman -
I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.
Buzz Aldrin -
A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
Chris Stein Blondie -
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 -
It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
Alan Cumming -
I always felt an outsider.
Joanne Rowling
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
Garry Wills -
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Robert Frost -
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 -
I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
Zooey Deschanel -
In a lot of ways, in high school, I was very much an outsider and never really felt like I fit into any particular clique or group, and so I found myself solo very often.
Ethan Peck -
I never felt like I was in the grime scene…I was the outsider. So when I veered away from it, I didn’t feel like I was leaving the circle – I felt like I was never in it…No one paid me any attention…I had to do everything on my own.
AJ Tracey
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When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
Steven Spielberg -
I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.
Edwidge Danticat -
I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy.
Amy Poehler -
I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.
Lily King