Quotes About Individuality

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

To be a successful Viner, you have to find your own style and be consistent. That will help you stand out from the rest.

My walk is consistently made fun of.

As long as I look good, I'm very happy - and as long as I look consistently me.

If Brian Eno wanted to make a record, I'd definitely clear some time in my calendar. John Cale, too. Those guys consistently make great records, always doing their own thing.

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.

You can't care what anybody else thinks - even though your life is out there maybe for a bit of public consumption.

Whether it's a bright shoe or a clutch or a lipstick, I've had a lot of fun using color contacts as an accessory.

If you are a woman and an actor, it does not mean that you have to contain or limit yourself to just being that.

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

The kind of content I want to be part of is hardly made.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.