Eccentricity quotes

“Eccentric is a word that boring people use to describe someone I think of as interesting. A great many people think of me as eccentric simply because when I have my shoes polished, I have the entire shoe polished. Top, sides and soles. Some people think it eccentric that every morning I have my maid iron my money. When I told Truman I had my...” (continue)(continue reading)
Juliet Stevenson - Diana Vreeland

- Dr. Molly Griswold: Is this normal for him?
- Earl: Well, the words "normal" and "him" don't often collide in the same sentence.

Rene Russo - Dr. Molly Griswold
Dennis Burkley - Earl

“- Dad: Listen, have you noticed anything weird about our Billy lately?
- Tony: What are you after like, a list?”
Gary Lewis - Dad
Jamie Draven - Tony

“They say I'm disturbed. Well, of course I'm disturbed. I mean, we're all disturbed. And if we're not, why not?”
Christian Slater - Mark Hunter

“- Viktor Taransky: Any room she walks into must have seven packs of cigarettes waiting for her, three of them open. That there be a personal Jacuzzi within eighty paces of her dressing room, and that any time she travels, her nanny must fly with her, first class.
- Elaine Christian: So? What's wrong with that?
- Viktor Taransky: Elaine, she...” (continue)(continue reading)

Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky
Elaine Christian - Elaine Christian

“I can do whatever I want. I'm eccentric.”
John Marwood Cleese - Donald P. Sinclair

“You know, I'd be jealous about you staying at Allie's place, except I always thought he was kind of a closet queer.”
Bill Murray - Steve Zissou

“- Berke Landers: Striker, I'd be careful with that accent if I were you. Because you're beginning to sound a lot like Mary Poppins.
- Striker: Look, I don't know what you are blathering about, but if I were you...
- Berke Landers: Are you wearing makeup?”
Ben Foster - Berke Landers
Shane West - Bentley 'Striker' Scrumfeld

“- Dr. Grace Holloway: He's British.
- The Doctor: I suppose I am.”

Daphne Ashbrook - Dr. Grace Holloway
Paul McGann - The Doctor

“- Ace Ventura: Assholomio...Osodomia...Lea- Holy...testicle Tuesday!
- Lois Einhorn: What the hell is he doing here?
- Ace Ventura: I came to confess. I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.”

Jim Carrey - Ace Ventura
Sean Young - Lois Einhorn

“Let me warn you: I'm a queer, moody brute, but there's rich soil in here if you care to dig for it.”
Stephen Fry - Mybug

“Never underestimate the value of eccentrics and lunatics, Lex.”

John Glover - Lionel Luthor

- Natalie Simon: You're fucking crazy!
- Brenda Bates: I prefer the term "eccentric". But, yeah, I guess I'm a little "nutty".

Alicia Witt - Natalie Simon
Rebecca Gayheart - Brenda Bates

“- Elizabeth Trent: What are your eccentricities, dear Edward?
- Pierce: Mine? I have none at all. Well, one. I am excessively preoccupied with a certain lovely young lady.
- Elizabeth Trent: Sir! You're a bold rogue to be so forward! I might even begin to suspect you of some motive in your advances.
- Pierce: Never, my darling.”
Gabrielle Lloyd - Elizabeth Trent
Sir Sean Connery - Pierce

“- Joseph Donnelly: All saints preserve us! We thought you died, Da!
- Joe Donnelly: I did son, I passed away... I've come back to tell you something. You're an especially odd boy.
- Joseph Donnelly: You came back from the dead to tell me that I'm odd?”

Tom Cruise - Joseph Donnelly
Niall Toibin - Joe Donnelly

“- Roger Podacter: Who's he?
- Melissa Robinson: Roger Podacter, meet Ace Ventura. He's our pet detective.
- Roger Podacter: Nice to meet you, you were highly recommended by Martha Metz.
- Ace Ventura: Martha Metz? Oh, yeah, the bitch.
- Roger Podacter: What?
- Ace Ventura: Pekingese, hyperactive, lost in Highland Park area. She was half-dead...” (continue)(continue reading)
Troy Evans - Roger Podacter
Courteney Cox - Melissa Robinson
Jim Carrey - Ace Ventura