Obnoxious Quotes

All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can’t be that obnoxious and get away with it.

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.

I’m a Berliner – fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

To be around me, you must love food, or I’m the most obnoxious person you’ve ever met.

If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out.

If I’m extremely bored and I don’t have a book with me and I’m being an obnoxious teenager, I’ll read ‘BuzzFeed’ on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it’s kind of obvious when you’re learning things faster than other kids.

I’m not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions lying and expressing hateful speech in the name of love, but again, it is their constitutional right. I’m not OK with their conduct, but in America we tolerate it, as obnoxious and spiteful as it may be.

I’ve been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can’t be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label – ‘the posh Toby Stephens’ – I’m not posh!

I started as an inexperienced drag queen with awful makeup serving daiquiris to obnoxious bachelorette parties.

I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being belligerent.

Yeah, I’m obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I’m rude. You know why? Because you’re busy.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

I, Tonya’ is definitely a calling card for people in the industry to acknowledge who I am or the basis on which I can perform and take characters who could be absurd or fake or unrealistic or obnoxious and try to give some depth and humanity to them.

There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I’m sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I’d probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.

I was that sort of obnoxious girl, I remember being 10 at careers things where people were talking about becoming secretaries and I said I don’t want to be a secretary, I want to have a secretary, and people would sort of look at me slightly perplexed.

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

When I was at Oxford, I was a Thatcher child; I was fascinated by politics and I spent three years being obnoxious in the Oxford Union.

I’ve learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it’s important to knock them down a peg.

Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.

Atheists are just as obnoxious if not more obnoxious than zealots.

I’ve punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I’ve also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from ‘Sound Of Music’ when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I’ve always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn’t me, hiding behind a character.

I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so obnoxious about it, but I said to her, ‘Momma, I’m going to enjoy every moment of this because tomorrow, something bad is going to happen.’

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I’d be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

I think if anyone becomes so obnoxious to believe they could be a national treasure, they just need to go on Twitter and realise they’re not. That’s there to curtail anybody’s confidence.

Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

When I started out in ‘Caravan,’ I looked plump, but that looks fine when you are young. But as you age, you put on weight, it looks obnoxious, you slow down and carry a paunch.

The 20-year-old version of me had all this energy, and wanted to be obnoxious with his art and wanted to communicate even though he didn’t know what he wanted to communicate.

I’m crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

I remember going to one party of this preppy, bourgeois crowd, and there was some obnoxious character there, really bad news, and saying, ‘Oh my God, so the caricature you always see in films actually exists.’

I think every model has times when they get obnoxious and crazy. You all of a sudden realize you are young and beautiful and you have money, and you just kind of go nutty for awhile.

I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.

‘Mindy’ was fun. Other than ‘Superstore,’ it was the other time I played an elitist, obnoxious idiot.

Actors can be many things – vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies – but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

I like all the obnoxious Eagles stuff that just drives people crazy. I love ‘Life In The Fast Lane’ and ‘Hotel California.’

The more you know about somebody’s back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!

Anybody who knows me knows I’m a handful, I’m aggressive, I’m loud, I’m obnoxious.

Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots.

I like the idea of sort of playing quieter roles, which would be refreshing for a minute. It is exhausting being really loud and obnoxious.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Women are problem solvers, and often we don’t get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who’s loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That’s not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

I also turn down what’s probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.