Top 70 Freaks Quotes

After ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it’s not something I’m insecure about.

My first acting role as a kid was on ‘Freaks and Geeks.’

I’m double-jointed. I can put my legs over my head, which freaks people out.

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don’t know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It’s a funny breed, directors.

Jesus was not born on December 25th. There’s carbon evidence of it. That freaks people out.

I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That’s just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.

I’d like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed – the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.

I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it’s your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.

In my living room – it’s probably going to be moved to my office soon because it freaks too many people out – I have a huge seven foot statue of ‘Seven of Nine’ of ‘Star Trek Voyager.’

I live on the edge of Bath. It’s really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It’s peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I’ve retired.

I remember being unbelievable bummed when ‘Freaks and Geeks’ was canceled.

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don’t snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

‘Freaks and Geeks’ was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

The ‘S’ is because my freaks realized they weren’t with a normal man but a Superman. That’s why they called me the ‘Big Bad Booty Daddy.’

That’s why fame freaks me out in a lot of ways – because how genuine of a connection can you have when you’re a commodity, and a conversation with you means bragging rights? That’s terrifying to me.

I used to consume a lot of horror movies as a teenager, and some impressed me more than other ones. I would watch Romero’s movies, Dario Argento’s movies, ‘Eraserhead’ over and over. ‘Possession,’ ‘Repulsion,’ ‘Freaks.’

I don’t like L.A. It’s just not fun. I don’t know why, but I just don’t get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

I get massive invective, massive abuse, via email, phone messages, and Twitter. From people way, way to the right of center – scary, abusive kind of stuff. Really freaks out my assistant and my wife. Hate-filled.

I loved ‘Freaks and Geeks.’ I don’t know a better show.

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

I just don’t like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I’m not a fan of it.

I couldn’t love a movie much more than ‘Dazed and Confused.’ I would argue that ‘Dazed and Confused: The Series’ would have been very much like ‘Freaks and Geeks.’ And that died a painful death because it was too good.

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I’ll get bored.

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people – and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

He’s an extreme competitor. There are a lot of big freaks out there, God gave them talent, but they don’t possess the same competitiveness that LeBron does. I think he’s a very good leader, but I’m a huge fan, so I’m very biased.

Actors are sensitive freaks, but it amazes me that it is something that I haven’t improved on over the years.

I’m not a household name; I’m just a household name to guitar freaks.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

I play music all the time because silence freaks me out.

‘Freaks and Geeks’ was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that’s the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.

‘Eight-Legged Freaks’ runs out of gas scarily fast – its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they’re not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

So often when you meet child actors, they’re weird – they’re freaks. No, I mean it, they’re really odd people.

One of my best memories is with a really good group of people in the Canberra Youth Theatre. We did a play about the seven deadly sins, and we had to dress up in costume and perform in Garema Place like the drama freaks we were. Great fun.

I don’t think it’s helpful to put them all in a box and say people are evil and freaks because they have gotten to the point where they have fallen out of the community of what it is to be a human being. That’s worthy of investigation.

Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They’re like circus folk. They’re freaks themselves.

People tell me I look mournful. They say, ‘Cheer up, Dan, it’s not that bad!’ Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I’m a happy person.

We’re probably a couple of freaks who’ve created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that’s the only place where we can survive.

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it’s soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.

There’s a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that’s in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I’m looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It’s just a cycle.

There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they’re both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they’re both control freaks.

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it’s about bending the elements of a story into existence.

When I start thinking about the future it freaks me out.

Anywhere we go in the States, people know we’re from out of town: like, we stick out like sore thumbs. People are like, ‘Freaks! Go cut your hair!’ and whatever. It’s a little weird.

I’ve had a couple of ghost experiences, but I’m not a big fan of the spiritual side of things, of the ghost type thing. I don’t know why; maybe it freaks me out a bit, or I’m more into tangible, physical beings rather than things that can pass through walls.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I’ve played, but I think I’m pretty similar to the character I’m playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Before these fights, everything in your body freaks out like it’s saying, ‘No… don’t do this,’ but you still make that walk and do it. Going through those things and coming out on the other side, no matter how the fight turns out, is a win.

I’m a ’70s mom, and my daughter is a ’90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.

Half the time I feel like I’m appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I’m an upper.

I like seeing those 300-pound women that toss those discus. I just feel like they’re so scary. It freaks me out a little bit to know that there are women like that.

I’ve heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that’s great. But it freaks me out.

I think that when you’ve got a world in which it’s plausible to have a guy dressed as a giant bat and fight evil clowns and other nightmarish freaks, I think the world has to be visually a little more arresting than a regular world.

I’m not very good at staying up late and drinking or any of that stuff. It sort of freaks me out.

I hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We played with Merle in Oklahoma City. I’m from Arizona, and we talked about Arizona, and he remembered playing for two dollars a day down there at a bar.

It’s one of my biggest internal struggles – the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.

As a professional skateboarder, I can’t look at anyone getting hurt – it freaks me out.

I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.

I’ve been going to the same dermatologist since I was on ‘Freaks and Geeks.’

Spiders – the way they move freaks me out. It’s so malevolent.

In the normal world, the residents of Scream Street would not be welcome – they would be seen as freaks and ghouls, so it wouldn’t be OK for them to be there. Scream Street is a haven for them; it’s their own little place where they can be safe.

We hire people who are freaks. They don’t have social lives.

I don’t like being in London too long, because everybody’s just looking straight forward, at nobody else. That freaks me out a little bit.

I want to fall in love, I think. I’ve never. I know. Everyone I know’s been in love or in relationships now and… There’s only ever been… there’s been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I’m a bad girlfriend.

Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I’m from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.