Social Outsiders Quotes

I've always identified with the misfits.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

I will always make films that champion outsiders, because I still feel like one, even though I'm now governor of the documentary branch of the Academy.

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.