Eccentricity often leads to fame, even if it wasn't intentional. People like a freak show (No negative connotation intended, but he was certainly strange). For

Eccentricity often leads to fame, even if it wasn't intentional. People like a freak show (No negative connotation intended, but he was certainly strange). For example, the only thing I really know about Howie Mandell is his OCD about germs, but that's more than I know about most celebrities.