William Joyce Quotes

If you're not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

I see things differently, feel things differently. That's how I've always been, and that's why I'm different to everyone else. Information: simple. Detail: simple. I just aim to play as if it was five-a-side as an 11-year-old kid. That's how I see it because that's how it is.

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

Live a life less ordinary.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

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.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

Alien ideas are just as dangerous to us as the aliens themselves, no matter how plausible.

I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.

I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

It's better to be the underdog than have all the pressure, for sure.

I always spoke my mind. I didn't go with the flow.

Throughout my career I have done it my way and used my stubborn streak. I thought the best way to captain was to shut out all the noise - I did it with my batting and thought 'that has served me well, so why change it?'

My success came from the fact that I'm not a typical blogger.

I'm not really making decisions that people normally expect.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

In the end, everybody's life's different. Some things fit certain ways for people, and it's right, and maybe it isn't for others.