Quotes About Individuality

A lot of people don't know how to navigate: they think, once you become a Christian, you essentially have to become Ned Flanders.

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

I'm not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don't need a lot of extras.

For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing.

I feel less pressure to dress for the eyes of other people now. I think that happened once I started modelling, near the end of high school.

I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.

I've got an allergy to looking too neat.

I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.

It's not a secret - I'm literally one of the best dancers in the world! I mean, not everyone would necessarily agree with that.

What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look.

People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can exist. There isn't any judgment. They don't necessarily agree with everything I do, but I don't necessarily agree with everything they do.

I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.