Quotes About Individuality

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

To be different is a gift. To be ordinary is common.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.

I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her.

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.

I named my album 'So Uncool' because it defies the ordinary: you're different from everyone else. It's like, being uncool makes you cool because you're different!

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

Guess what? I am an ordinary person.

I am an ordinary person.

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

I'm an introvert, but I disguise my introversion by being an extrovert. If I don't have to be around people, I'm not. If I'm around people, I'm gonna do my thing. But I'm not really with the fake kickin' it - everything's organic, everything's natural.

The way I write my shows, every character is its own organic thing. No character has a life at all until I see it played by somebody.

If I couldn't get to where I wanted to by being my organic self - which is a smart, funny, unapologetically black woman - then I felt like it's not worth doing it if I can't do it the most organic way possible. Which is why I left the music business.

People's lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can't be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.

To force something that was not organic to who I am was tough on me, and so I can relate to all those girls and guys out there going through the same thing.

My love for fashion has been natural, it's been organic and I want to keep it that way.

It's about me doing me, about me being organic. I can't wear things and put on a front and say I like something when I don't. I won't wear something I wouldn't normally wear just for people to like it or for people to look at me like this or that in fashion.

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.