20 Movie Quotes about Eccentricity (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 14, 2026

Memorable quotes about eccentricity, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Come on, people. A guy in a weird suit with two polar bears can't be hard to spot.

Commissioner Gordon in Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero

2 Well, he's a bit of an eccentric, sir, a genius, of course, but definitely an eccentric.

Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

3 I want you to take over for his foreign client this rather eccentric Count Dracula. He's buying up property around London.

Quote from Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

4 Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure grain alcohol?

Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove

5 The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.

Quote from Batman (1989)

6 I live alone and so do you, because you're wearing one brown sock and one black one.

Katharine Hepburn as Bunny Watson in Desk Set (1957)

7 Nah, I'm doing this because I'm an eccentric millionaire!

Charles Bronson as Bernardo O'Reilly in The Magnificent Seven (1960)

8 Your friend sure has a weird sense of humor. -Yes, he has a weird sense of... something.

Quote from The A-Team

9 Nutty as a fruit cake.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

10 Man, like, wow! It's a mad scientist's rumpus room.

Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)