65 Inspirational Edgy Quotes On Success In Life

These Edgy quotes will inspire you. Edgy, nervously irritable; impatient, and anxious.

Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging edgy quotes, edgy sayings, and edgy proverbs.

Best Edgy Quotes

1. “If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.” ~ Danielle LaPorte
2. “You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone – profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.” ~ Danielle LaPorte
3. “My head spins. One moment I’m told I’m too edgy, then people say I’m too angry, then that I show too much passion… make your minds up.” ~ Nick Clegg

4. “I have an attitude. It’s what I do. I’m edgy. I have an attitude.” ~ Hope Solo

5. “I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.” ~ Leven Rambin
6. “I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.” ~ Rick Rubin
7. “People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.” ~ Charles Bukowski , Edgy quotes about love
8. “I mean, I’m pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I’m like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I’m just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.” ~ Brittany Snow

9. “I had a gothic phase, and now I’m more edgy chic.” ~ Ashley Benson

10. “I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it’s glam and edgy mixed together.” ~ Victoria Justice
11. “I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance.” ~ Krysten Ritter
12. “I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy.” ~ Beth Riesgraf , Edgy quotes intelligence
13. “When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don’t respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.” ~ Kingsley Amis

14. “I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.” ~ Joichi Ito

15. “I guess my style’s a little edgy but comfortable. I like being comfortable, for sure, and kind of casual.” ~ Kendall Jenner
16. “My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it’s what I feel comfortable in.” ~ Demi Lovato
17. “The public’s nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.” ~ Jack Valenti

18. “People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.” ~ Christa Miller

19. “My habit would have been to veer towards the dark – to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that’s true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.” ~ George Saunders
20. “Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.” ~ Lee Tergesen
21. “Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of payment . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, for, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.” ~ Dennis Nurkse , Edgy quotes about strangers
22. “Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.” ~ Clint Black

23. “Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.” ~ Michael Birch

24. “I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.” ~ Patrice O’Neal
25. “I’ve been very lucky at what’s happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine – anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I’d like Gary Oldman’s career: he’s the perfect example of it. I’ve love to have a really broad sweep of characters – to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.” ~ Benedict Cumberbatch
26. “If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That’s why you don’t find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.” ~ Maeve Binchy

27. “I would like to do something a little bit more edgy.” ~ Devon Sawa

28. “My personal sense of humor is edgy, I would say more cable-like: words you’re not allowed to say, ideas that the majority of people might say, “That’s too risqué for me.”” ~ Mary Elizabeth Ellis
29. “You know, to me, that’s going to influence the culture. They both influence each other – I know that – but, you know, there’s no two ways about it. When you’re just immersed in kind of this dark, edgy constant flow of entertainment, there’s no way it can’t affect you. There’s just no way.” ~ Michael Landon, Jr.
30. “I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.” ~ John Cleese

31. “A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.” ~ Mickey Rourke

32. “In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way.” ~ Leslie Jamison , Edgy quotes about life
33. “I think people like watching edgy things.” ~ Ray Liotta
34. “I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that’s what I’ll continue to do.” ~ Simone Elkeles

35. “In the taverns, all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.” ~ Barbara Holland

36. “I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.” ~ Kaya Scodelario
37. “I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .” ~ Dean Israelite
38. “I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, “Mother, you’ve been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven’t been writing. We wish you’d go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that’s what I am.”” ~ Madeleine L’Engle

39. “I’m always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.” ~ Yelawolf

40. “Britannia High is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school.” ~ Mitch Hewer
41. “The real trick to producing great work isn’t to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it’s to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We’re all in deep water. Which is fine: it’s by far the most exciting place to be.” ~ Oliver Burkeman
42. “For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.” ~ Carl Sagan

43. “Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.” ~ Yelawolf

44. “I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians… Eddie Murphy back when he was doing ‘Raw.’ I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.” ~ Ray William Johnson
45. “What Is Your WOW Factor? This applies to both the service that you provide to the world and the way you market it. Make it edgy, make it snappy, and make it punchy. Even make it raunchy – but make it different! Real different!” ~ Ernie J Zelinski , Edgy quotes wow factor
46. “If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn’t have believed it. There’s great stuff out there.” ~ Jonathan Banks

47. “You can be edgy without showing off your boobs.” ~ Hilary Duff

48. “I don’t get to be edgy and angry, but the rewards are that I’m generally quite happy with my day. I spend an awful lot of time in a good mood.” ~ Raul Esparza
49. “I think I’ve been called edgy – but in all honestly, there is a safety in what I do because I’m always the idiot.” ~ Sarah Silverman
50. “Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn’t know comedy could do that.” ~ Eric Andre
51. “I like somebody I can consider edgy, because, I also find that when people see me; the first thing they might think about me, musically, is that I rap or make beats, in the sense of trap or hip-hop or whatever, and when they hear what I actually create, they’ll often be like, ‘Wait a minute, I wasn’t expecting this’.” ~ Jlin

52. “Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that’s the worst way.” ~ Billy Lawrence

53. “What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That’s not to say that there aren’t scary parts ’cause there are, and that there aren’t sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there’s a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.” ~ Eric Kripke
54. “It was really the dream role, and when they first cast me, and I started playing Dolores [in the Westworlds] and all I knew was the analysis mode and her prairie-girl character, I thought, “Yeah, of course, I can do this, and I’m good at it, but why did they pick me?” Not because I’m not capable, but I’m also kind of a tomboy, edgy, so I was curious.” ~ Evan Rachel Wood
55. “More than most, I believe I’m highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of people who consider themselves ‘edgy’ are those who only embraced radical ideas LONG after it became safe for them to do so.” ~ Jim Goad

56. “We all have firm favorites we bring out at a dinner parties, but it’s nice to try something a bit more edgy, or more time-consuming.” ~ Tom Aikens

57. “We like to be punks. We like to still be kind of edgy and if being edgy means you might teeter on that line of being inappropriate, I’m still willing to teeter on that line, even at my age. But some of them go over that line and you’ve gotta draw that line somewhere.” ~ Milo Aukerman
58. “I tend to keep my style very classic. I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine floral things. I’m not very edgy.” ~ Ariana Grande
59. “I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy or whatever, the writing would fall apart. This book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was going to have to have some earnestness in it.” ~ George Saunders

60. “While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative….the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.” ~ Twyla Tharp

61. “I’ve been doing It’s Aways Sunny for 12 years, and so I have this cable sensibility. When I read the Grinder script, I was like “this is edgy,” which is great, but in a different way from Arrested Development. I feel like the characters are a little more relatable, so maybe that’s the difference.” ~ Mary Elizabeth Ellis
62. “People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don’t know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.” ~ Joe Goddard
63. “I think my style is very eclectic, because I love so many different things. And, that’s true, too, in almost every aspect of my life. I can go from really edgy to tailored and professional, and I just love to change things up.” ~ Evangeline Lilly
64. “Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It’s a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.” ~ Ian Bremmer
65. “You can’t expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you’ll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there’s a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn’t work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they’ll fail and it’s not the audience’s fault for not getting it or loving it.” ~ Anthony Jeselnik

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