Quotes About Individuality

I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

Every Dirty Projectors album is a world unto itself.

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

I feel best in a ragged pair of red Honda Motorcycle pants. I have taken them to Machu Picchu, to the Knob Creek Machine Gun festival, and backstage to Cirque du Soleil - just the right touch to make you untouchable. No one quite dares to throw you out, because perhaps you are a world class motocross racer.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

A lot of people have the misconception that I decided to become an actor when Lily became famous and have accused me of jumping on her bandwagon. But that's completely untrue.

I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17-year-old girls where the question is not, 'Will she find the right guy' or 'Will he find her?' The question should be, 'Is she going to occupy her personhood?' Because I think we're very unused to seeing female characters, particularly young female characters, as people.

Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

Singing in character you can be more of a show off or more modest because it isn't yourself it's a nice way to sing, unusual, a bit like being in musical I guess.

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

People always say to me, 'You're really attractive - in an unusual way.' No one ever just says, 'You're attractive.'

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady Gaga, just musically.

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.