Quotes About Individuality

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

Just be yourself. As an actor, you pretend all day - that's what the job calls for. So, when it comes to my personal life, a woman who keeps it real is a breath of fresh air.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

I can't just pretend to be someone else all my life. I have to mix it up.

I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me.

If I don't belong because of what I think and because of my opinions, then so be it. What can one do about it? One can't bend over backwards or pretend to be someone else just to belong. And in any case, it doesn't work. Once you no longer belong, it's over.

I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had to pretend it was a band.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

You have to be yourself. You can't pretend to be somebody else.

If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.

I have always been an extrovert. When I was younger, I would go outside and sing to the flowers and pretend they were the orchestra. As one of my parents' friends said, I was an odd boy.

It is too exhausting to try and make everyone happy or pretend.

Sometimes people pretend to be someone else and act in a different way, everyone carries an invisible mask.

Even more so since being a mum, I've got more of a backbone with the decisions I make because you can't pretend to be someone else or to enjoy or dislike something just to fit in with the crowd.

People ask what my influences are, and for me, it's not always obvious. One of my biggest inspirations was Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. That's based on how she just does whatever she wants to do, and I love her attitude about everything. It bleeds over into my way of thinking and comedy.

In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.

I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

It's not like I'm pretending to be Freddie Mercury.

I think the best people are the ones who are just as nice and fun. This is really cheesy, but you only have one life - why spend most of it pretending to be cool?

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

I think of L.A. as my home now, in large part because I became the entity that I am in L.A. I always say to people that my coming-of-age happened in L.A., the unraveling of the person I was pretending to be for a long time, and then finding of the person I feel like I now am.

I'm not pretending that I'm the perfect body shape.

I'm fascinated by people who can keep who they are in the midst of this business, which is all about not only pretending to be other people, but also that perception of who you are and how successful you are and your standing in the business.