Quotes About Individuality

I've never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly articulated the pain of heartbreak or the joy of love or whatever. Those elements exist in our music, but I guess I strive to write about unconventional things instead.

My parents were unconventional for Asian parents.

I think it's helped me to have two unconventional parents, who have always encouraged me to be myself.

I think I always had an unconventional career because I didn't fit the mould of the conventional heroine.

If one looks at my choices, all of them have been unconventional. There's not a single song-and-dance or romantic film.

I have always stuck to my belief and conviction no matter how unconventional.

My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

My parents were rather unconventional and did not accept rules unless they thought they were defendable. They were atheists when Sweden was a very Christian country.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

I love being unconventional because that's the reason I stand out.

I personally believe that I'm a very unconventional heroine. And for me to be cast in some very nice films and whatever little name I have made for myself, I feel proud of myself.

I was completely unconventional in everything, which my mother found very difficult. I was a huge tomboy.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of parts and work on a lot of things. That was my unconscious choice. I wanted to be an undercover actress.

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

I was always interested in the fringes of culture and society and in expressing myself in a distinctively different way, like always rooting for the underdog, that kind of thing.

You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.

They say to never underestimate anyone, but they don't tell you to overestimate people either, so I'm just going to do me.

I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

Don't ever underestimate someone's ability to live for the moment. At the end of the day everyone has a 'Mr. Rock n Roll' in them.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

The Americans have their way of talking, their way of dressing, their way of doing things, and we have ours. That's why this whole U.K. underground thing has become sick, because everyone has finally said, 'Yeah, yeah, Drake is sick - but hang on, we are too.'