Quotes About Individuality

I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.

When all the other kids were playing sports after school, I wanted to sing and dance and act.

It's important for kids to know they can be themselves, and that it's OK to have dreams and goals they love and that may not be cool or popular to other kids.

I wanted to stand out from the other kids who had gone to Eton.

When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

I've bleached my brows and things like that, but otherwise, I just let them be.

I just love Ottawa because I was able to develop a lot of things, my own character as a man.

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

We want women to have options and not be forced into somebody else's idea of what their beauty needs ought to be.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

On stage, we embrace every ounce of ourselves, we celebrate who we are, we are honest and live our truth - and we inspire people to do the same.

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.