Quotes About Individuality

Ireland is a great place to be odd.

In my case, I am always that odd candidate that doesn't look like everybody else.

I find it natural to write on the bass, and a lot of people find that really odd.

Gender roles are absurd when you actually look at them. The fact that anybody could ever say or think that dressing in women's clothes is wrong, or odd. Women dressing in women's clothes and men dressing in men's clothes is the actually the thing that is really odd.

As a kid I was very conscious of trying to be functional and not be too odd.

People like to put people in little boxes and if you don't fit you're odd. But they don't really know anything about me.

I really wanted to have a name that was double-barreled. I think at the time I was listening to a lot of Odd Future - like Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean - and I wanted my name to have a ring to it.

In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.

I'm okay with being the oddball.

I come from the most normal family. I've always been the oddball.

I'm not an oddball.

I was an oddball in kickboxing because of my style. I'm different. I'm fleet-footed and I understand how to move and work the system.

All of my friends are oddities.

It's called 'Odd Boy Out' because as I was writing it I realized I was a bit of an oddity as a child.

I think comparisons are odious.

My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'

Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

Don't be afraid to show off who you are.

Even if it comes off natural, everyone has a fashion sense.

You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.