Misfits Quotes - Page 3

• I've always been a misfit.

  Tracey Ullman

  "Tracey Ullman returns to BBC with first television series in 30 years" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2016.

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• We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

  Mike Vallely

  Sports, Athlete, Skater

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Different, Proud, Artistic

  "Daniel Radcliffe on Romancing Boys in His New Movie and Not Being Cool in High School". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 16, 2013.

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• I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

  Rhys Ifans

  Bits

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• I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.

  Jenny Lawson

  Facts, Realizing, Internet

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• San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.

  Michael Franti

  San Francisco, Weirdo, Havens

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• Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Stories, Love Story

  "Stephen Chbosky Talks “the Perks Of Being A Wallflower”, Blu-ray Extras, And His Favorite Teen Films". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. February 13.

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• There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it's like to feel like you're not accepted, and you're different, and somehow you're weird.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, Different, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

  Clark Gable

  Heart, Film, Heart Attack

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

  Jenna Fischer

  Book, Thinking, Self Love

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• We both [wuth Harry Elfont] had those sort of misfit childhoods.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Childhood

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• Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.

  Claudia Shear

  Alcohol, Choices, Drug

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• A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

  Jeremy Davies

  Monkeys, Hollywood, Kind

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.

  Rob Zombie

  Party, Zombie, Influential

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• I owe a great deal to Revenge Of The Nerds movie and I loved making it. But I've said this a lot: My character is as far from me as it's possible to be. People feel like they know who he is, and when they see me they just assume that I'm going to be like that guy. For me, to be that kind of anti-social misfit was something that I found to be a real challenge.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Revenge, Real, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  People, Feels, Superiors

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.

  Steve Roper

  Climbing, Giants, Oddballs

  Steve Roper (2013). “Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber”, p.12, The Mountaineers Books

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• Living in, and promoting a eugenic White society. This means that we take particular care in not only assuring the perpetuation of our precious White Race, but we take deliberate care that the misfits are culled and that each generation advances to higher and more salubrious levels, physically, aesthetically, and mentally.

  Ben Klassen

  Mean, Race, White

  "The Little White Book". Book by Ben Klassen, 1991.

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• In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes. I've had to do it before with stage roles, to get roles. I'm drawn to kind of darker, misfit things. I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

  Aaron Tveit

  Play, People, Want

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• I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Rough Edges, Oddballs

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits.

  Chris Pine

  People, Uncomfortable

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• Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.

  Jack Zipes

  Communication, Mean, People

  Jack Zipes (2012). “The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• I had My Little Ponies. I was obsessed with the idea of a creature that was born with something magical that sort of made them the misfit in the world of the stallion. I’m actually quite obsessed with unicorns. They are in essence a mythical creature. The unicorn is born magical and it’s not the unicorn’s fault and it doesn’t make it any more or less special or any less unique but it can’t help that it was born with that magic.

  Lady Gaga

  Unique, Ideas, Essence

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• I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

  Clare Balding

  School, Thinking, Common

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• Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Mistake, People

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