Quotes About Individuality

It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.

I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.

I'm not asking myself, 'How I can be different from Netanyahu?' because I am different, and Kadima is different from Likud, by its own nature.

The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.

A network did not make me, and therefore, a network cannot break me.

People are so accustomed now to social networking. Now everybody has custom-made news for him or her. So everybody is a content maker and a content reactor.

People don't understand the classification process and they also don't understand a condition like MS and how it has different effects on different people. Neurological conditions are all so different because we don't know what people have gone through and how their brains adapt to it all and you can't assess everything with the naked eye.

I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?

Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort of a neutral person. 'Don't do anything to your hair. Don't tell them your age. Don't tell them you're gay. Don't tell them anything that could limit you, specify you as a person.' I always hated that, actually moved out of L.A. because of that.

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

A lot of brands are saying they're going to make 'gender neutral' clothing. But clothing is gender neutral.

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

I do know that I would never - though you should never say never - work with a decorator, because I don't want to see the touch of someone else in my own space.

The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn't want to be.

I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.

A dress should never take over someone.

Listen, you can never take the bedazzle away from me.

Never take advice, including this.

I would never take a fight with someone to one-up someone else. You know, you do things because you want to do them.