Stranger Quotes

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

There are many random, unprotected sites online that appear safe to use and are ready to accept credit card information. You wouldn’t give a stranger off the street your credit card information, so be extra cautious about who you are sharing it with online.

I’m not a stranger to the persecution that Muslims have faced over the years.

I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.

One thing that I love about country music, probably more so than any other culture – maybe the blues rivals it – there are so many American folk heroes. There’s the Coal Miner’s Daughter, the Man in Black, the Red-Headed Stranger, and on and on.

I’ve been no stranger to change.

I’ve never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.

I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I’m more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I’m afraid of family.

I’m looking for the thing that is different from the antagonist in ‘Stranger Things,’ different from the protagonist in ‘Power Rangers,’ and something that will really continue these two amazing opportunities I’ve been given.

Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There’s nowhere else where it’s stranger.

I grew up reading about all those film-makers who were part of a group, like the new wave. It’s a little stranger when it’s you.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

‘Fargo’ becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there’s no reason that there isn’t another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.

During ‘Stranger Things 3,’ I shot ‘It: Chapter Two,’ so I would shoot on my days off, which was super tiring and stressful, but really rewarding at the same time. Basically, I shot ‘It: Chapter Two’ and ‘Stranger Things 3’ at the same time.

The safest person, sometimes, is a stranger on the Internet who lives in a different place. If they’re a daily source of support and advice, no one really wants to lose that once they have it. If they know deep down that the person they’re talking to isn’t exactly who they say they are, it’s not worth finding out.

I had this crazy trajectory. I went from literally living in a hostel in L.A. at the beginning of 2015 to shooting ‘Stranger Things’ at the end of 2015.

I’ll tell ya, I’m a pro-Second Amendment person, I’m a gun owner. I went to combat with a 9 millimeter strapped to my chest and a 20 millimeter cannon on the front of my jet. I’m no stranger to weapons.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Men know something that women don’t know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don’t know what they would do.

I’ll talk to any stranger about everything. I’m not guarded.

Even when ‘Stranger Things’ was finished and we couldn’t touch it anymore, we saw all these problems still and we were begging Netflix to go back in and fix stuff. They were like, ‘Guys, stop, just leave it alone.’ But it was torturous, honestly.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to ‘Nanny McPhee’ were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it’s a stranger from out of town.

I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the ’60s and ’70s, I knew that prejudice was common.

I remember once seeing a guy in the grocery store who looked so much like my character the Archangel Gabriel, I wanted to go up to him and say, ‘Hey, put that Red Bull down. You’ve already got wings.’ My friend had to sternly remind me that he was a stranger and I did not, in fact, create him.

It’s really hard for me to be open and be completely honest with a stranger.

I think I’m writing for an intelligent stranger – you know, in my mind I can’t remember who coined that phrase first. I don’t want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot – mostly when I hear popular music.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

I am a shy man. I can’t call a stranger and talk.

India is no stranger to crises – wars, hijackings, plane crashes – we have seen them all.

I like the anonymity, the fact that you’re a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren’t forcing them to laugh – it’s involuntary, and that’s when they give the most honest response.

American poetry is this country’s greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

It’s intriguing to me, when I see a horror script, or something like that, that’s actually original. I think that’s why I love ‘Stranger Things,’ because it’s not just horror, it’s everything, and when they use horror it’s right.

The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can’t.

A lot of ‘Stranger Things’ is having to be able to, in your mind, turn a little tennis ball into a huge monster. In Season 2, there was one scene where I was screaming at the monster and I was screaming at nothing. It was just the sky. So I really have a big imagination, I guess?

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

I knew the big following ‘Stranger Things’ had, and I really liked the show, but even if I hadn’t known what the show was, I still really related to the character, and I really liked the material.

One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.

There’s a part of ‘Twin Peaks’ that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.

The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.

The thing that I’m most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, ‘I can’t stop drinking. I can’t stop drinking. Can you help me?’ I can say, ‘Yes, I can help you.’

While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger – an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave – who would be the mentor to drive home my mother’s goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Even though my approach is slightly different, the Luke Cage of ‘Jessica Jones’ is no stranger to the Luke Cage of Marvel’s ‘Luke Cage.’ It’s really a continuation to a certain extent. It’s just got a little different flavor, but it’s still the same suit.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger – one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

I have made a few ‘Stranger Things’ related TikToks because my fans love that and I definitely plan on making some while on set of ‘Stranger Things’ when production starts up again.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it’s me.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

With ‘Stranger Things’ especially, I couldn’t expect the show to become what it was, and I definitely didn’t expect the whole Barb thing to become what it was.

Some people say, ‘Oh, you look just like the guy from ‘Stranger Things.’ And I’m like, ‘I am the guy.’ And they think I’m totally joking.

In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Those Duffer Brothers really know how to tell a story, and I think it makes you want to watch. ‘Stranger Things’ is remarkably watchable.

In ‘Stranger Things,’ of course, I have all these kids around me and I feel like on a TV show, you’re more connected with everyone already. But it’s fun getting on a movie set and getting to know everyone. There’re pros and cons to everything.

I’m no stranger to making timeless music.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Let me be clear – I’m no stranger to the challenges facing our borders, ports of entry, and the needs of the dedicated men and women who protect them.

I liked ‘Making A Murderer,’ ‘Master of None.’ ‘Stranger Things’ I watched along with everyone else in the world. ‘Narcos,’ I really liked ‘Narcos’ a lot.

‘Carnival Row’ is us looking at the stranger; ‘The Curiosity’ is the stranger looking at us.

That’s why I wanted to say ‘Stranger Things 2,’ because I don’t want to think about it as a TV show. Maybe it’s a snobby thing, but it’s like: ‘Oh, I want it to be a movie. I want it to be a movie sequel.

As an Internet celebrity Nutritionist, its wonderful to be sitting in a café in Northern Italy and have a total stranger come up and thank me for me work. But I must say that it certainly keeps me personally walking the walk that I talk.

Since the Greek myths, the greatest stories are premised on the idea of, ‘A stranger arrives.’

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.

I probably don’t have any more of a bigger following on the Internet than anybody else does – I just probably have a stranger one.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

There’s a lot to love about Nancy Wheeler in the second season of ‘Stranger Things.’

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

There is a lot of good television out there, stuff that is better for you than ‘Stranger Things,’ that, critically, people would be like, ‘This is an important show,’ but I would press you to find a show that’s more watchable. That’s hard to do.

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger’s brow, the muggy air stifles – one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.

It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.

I started ‘Outer Banks,’ because there’s so much hype around it. I saw one episode and I didn’t really continue, but I got to keep going at it. Two of the actors on there were also in ‘Stranger Things,’ and all my friends always ask, ‘Oh my God, you know Madelyn Cline. She was in ‘Stranger Things’ too.’

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

I always wish I could just see the ‘Stranger Things’ from an audience standpoint and not from mine. ‘Cause when I watch it, I remember someone was behind there and behind there. I just can’t watch it like a viewer. But I love seeing something on paper come to TV.

I’m no stranger to weight issues. I’ve had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a ‘love for the stranger,’ and equality before the law – these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.

My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, ‘What did we just go through?’ And, like, kind of begin to talk.

Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they’re old and grizzled. I’m no stranger to that dynamic.

There’s always something really bad that happens in ‘Stranger Things,’ I think the more fun we’re having at the beginning, the higher the drop.

Stranger Things’ was my first job, and I was learning everything as I was doing it and it was such a whirlwind.

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: ‘Is that kid from ‘Love Actually’ there?’ And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: ‘Are you famous?’ I don’t know how to answer.

Acting is even stranger than I thought it would be.

When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.

After being married, hearing ‘You’re hot!’ from a total stranger means a hundred times more than hearing it from your husband.

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

I’m always getting texts asking why I’m not responding on Instagram or Facebook, and I’m like, ‘It’s not me. You’re writing to some stranger.’

While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion – namely, that I myself could not think at all.

I’ve had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

You know when you just get around someone and they just vibrate at a really good level? You can’t put your finger on it but you meet these people in your life, they walk into the room as a stranger and you just go, ‘Whoa. They’ve got it.’

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

For me, that’s one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you’ve created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people’s lives.

‘Couch surfing’ refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger – free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

It’s one thing for your mum to tell you that you look OK, but she’s your mum and she has to tell you you’re beautiful. It’s not the same as a stranger telling you.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that this is somehow a stranger who is carrying your child. And this is absolutely not true. Your surrogate becomes one of your best friends and a member of your family.

I got so tired of everybody talking about ‘Stranger Things,’ I think I developed a mental block against watching it.

There have been a lot of times in my life where I came out to a perfect stranger by some chance encounter. It’s way easier than coming out to your family. I started high school ‘out,’ then I had to tell my family. I had to introduce myself to the family.

Strange – I’m not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don’t stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others’ feelings, being inclusive.

We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.

When I saw the Penderecki concert in London, in ’92 or ’93, I thought there were speakers in the room. It was just strings. But I could hear these kind of buzzings and rumblings, and I was like, ‘Where is this all coming from?’ And that was just better, to my ears. Odder, stranger, more magical.

I didn’t even have a career before ‘Stranger Things’ – it was my first acting job, my first time on a professional set, and my character wasn’t even supposed to be a big deal – it all just exploded.

The first time I met my father was when I was 25. I was visiting here in Los Angeles, I had not moved here yet. And he came down to meet me. It wasn’t emotional, it was like meeting a stranger.

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

I’m no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn’t taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It’s not a way to live.

Before, I would just only stick to a few certain colors that were considered good for my skin tone and good for my hair. But ever since ‘Stranger Things,’ the wardrobe people there, they would always stick me in these super bright colors. I discovered all these new colors that I just like wearing.

When we billed the project to Netflix, we had this big two-and-a-half-minute trailer that had about 20 or 30 of these movies kind of woven together to try and tell the story of ‘Stranger Things,’ but obviously all these images or ideas were in our heads.

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don’t think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

It’s a sad commentary when children feel they can talK to a stranger better than their own parents and ask him to solve their personal problems.

Most of the fans of Calpurnia are ‘Stranger Things’ fans, which is not a big deal at all. They’re super loyal and incredible, and really do like the music. It’s the people who aren’t fans of the music and are just there because of ‘Stranger Things’ that really bother me.

For every hate-filled attempt to harm, there will be always the legion of those who do not hesitate to give their help and care to a stranger when it is needed.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.

I remember, when I was modelling in Japan, the agency would tell us that some guy wanted to take all the girls out to dinner, and I would be the one girl who didn’t go – I didn’t want to go out with a stranger.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson… even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

My parents always told me about VHS tapes. And the Walkman, everyone had those. I had never even seen one until I got onto ‘Stranger Things.’

When we were first writing ‘Stranger Things,’ the first thing we wrote was that Dungeons & Dragons scene. And we wrote it in about two minutes. It just poured out of us because it was so close to us.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

I think that’s what ‘Stranger Things’ does, it opens you up – it has a real beating heart to it.

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger’s brow, the muggy air stifles – one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.

A guy stopped me in the street the other day as I was skipping and singing to myself while walking with my son, Hudson who was also dancing along. I didn’t even realize I was doing it, it was just happening, and that made me smile. It rubs off on Hudson and it even rubbed off on a total stranger.

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

I read a lot of true crime growing up – ‘The Stranger Beside Me’ by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

I want it all… fast. I want to be married, I want to live together… and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like ‘Oh my God, who’s this stranger in my house?’

Middle school left some scars, as I’m sure it did for many of us. When my body started to change, I felt a bit like I was living inside a stranger. People began responding to me differently, which was confusing.

‘Under the Skin’ is handsome, in a dour way, but inert – a cunning experiment that died in the shooting or on the editing table. You’ll want to get the DVD, though, and not just for its study of Scarlett. Odds are that the Making-Of documentary will be far stranger and more fascinating than the movie that was made.

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

As soon as they sent me an email saying that ‘Stranger Things’ is having an audition and they’d like you to come in, I just thought, ‘Oh boy, this might be fated.’ I hadn’t really watched the show, but I binged it and fell in love with it.

How powerful it is to surprise a total stranger with a really nice act: buy them a cup of coffee, pay their toll. It makes their day; it makes your day.

When I filmed ‘Power Rangers,’ almost everything was being assisted by a green screen, but it wasn’t the same with ‘Stranger Things.’

My favorite thing is that young people are having ‘Stranger Things’ parties and binge-watching it. Hopefully, it leads them to go back and discover some of these movies and folks who inspired us so much.

Yeah it would be really cool to disappear. Like Jack Nicholson in ‘The Passenger.’ Isn’t that the final frontier? Being able to erase everything everyone knows about you and just be a stranger has become extremely seductive.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

Looking back, I call the first month after my diagnosis ‘the cancer bubble’ because I wasn’t showing obvious signs of my disease. I looked about the same – maybe a little more tired and pale than usual, but a stranger could never have guessed that I carried a secret, deep in my bones.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Well I actually came to shoot ‘Stranger Things’ straight from filming a movie called ‘Bridge of Spies,’ which is directed by Stephen Spielberg, so I was recommended to watch a bunch of his movies, like ‘E.T’ and stuff.

Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

I don’t believe in the term ‘guilty pleasure,’ because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don’t know, taking gratification in some stranger’s ghastly death or something – which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.

Award ceremonies are strange because you’re sitting next to someone you’ve never met; you’re celebrating with a total stranger.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

We were at a Giants game, and my manager told me, ‘Sadie, you have an audition for a show called ‘Stranger Things,” and I had just finished binge-watching it in a few days.

God is not distant: he is ‘Emmanuel,’ God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger’s eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music.

Things like, when a total stranger says, ‘I want you to record something for my forthcoming wedding,’ that can be a bit tiresome. But it’s a high-class problem. It doesn’t hurt my feelings.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it’s different when it’s personal. Not something I would recommend.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

To be confronted as you exit the polling place is really a matter of if you have the time, if you have the inclination to speak to a stranger, and if you want to divulge what is a very sacred, private matter – the way that you just voted.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

I’m not a stranger to fan attention. I do have my share of admirers and fans. To me they are God. Whatever I am, whatever I’ve achieved is because of them.

For me, Will being gay or not is besides the point. ‘Stranger Things’ is a show about a bunch of kids who are outsiders and find each other because they have been bullied in some way or are different.

To the predators… Weinstein, the stranger, the relative, the boyfriend… I say to you, ‘You can choose your sin but you don’t get to choose the consequences.’ To the victims… I see you. I believe you… and I’m listening.

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

There’s been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it’s ‘E.T.,’ ‘Starman,’ or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that’s what a Superman story really is.

I have a sense that the USDA and the secretary who represents the USDA has always been seen as either a stranger or adversary to the farming community and a stranger to the consuming community.

From my point of view, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ isn’t just a science fiction masterpiece; it also happens to be one of my favorite books ever.