Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one’s lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe. – Robert E. Howard
I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated – you do feel as if we’re in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control. – Robert Harris
Doing ‘Prometheus’ was what you imagine being an actor is like when you’re five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history. – Rafe Spall
The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T. – Octavia Spencer
I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp. – Olivia De Havilland
‘Red Lanterns’ is obviously about rage, but more it’s about how rage affects people – alien and human. I’ll be getting into the characters of some of those insane Red Lanterns whom we’ve generally only seen spitting vomit in the background. – Peter Milligan
When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense. – Rhys Ifans
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence. – Seth Shostak
How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers? – Richard Burton
Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, ‘What is going to happen to me?’ – R. Kelly
It’s hilarious, because my guitar has what’s known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar. – Steve Vai
For every person that says I’m the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian. – Simon Conway Morris
I’m 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn’t an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well. – Wagner Moura
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach. – Sanaa Lathan
We’ve tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, ‘Yeah, if I was Superman, that’s what I’d do.’ Even though he’s an alien, he’s more relatable, more human. – Zack Snyder
My eyes are so big that, weirdly, I feel like an alien if my eyelashes don’t match their intensity. I like to curl my lashes to the point where they’re sticking straight up and then put on a ton of mascara! – Sarah Hyland
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn’t too excited about all the effects work. – Walter Hill
I felt different from everyone else – like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were ones usually reserved for three-eyed monsters, half-man half-woman reptiles, creatures with hideous rolls of skin that sweated profusely and jiggled when they walked. That last one really was me. – Stephen Furst
I can’t live without my silver Marc Jacobs boots! They are a little bit cowboy, a little bit space alien. They go with everything. – Wynter Gordon
Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team. – Sarah Sutton