Quotes About Individuality

It's true that I'm not known as a crooner or balladeer. I'm known for a more crusading or quixotic temperament.

The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament they have, and the things they're interested in.

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

My inability to follow recipes as written - without obeying the devil on my shoulder telling me to replace ingredients or change the temperature - is well documented.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.

When you're living with a mob of other people, it's hard not to fall into thinking like as they do, and then you ain't YOU no more.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.

People want you to be ordinary.

When I speak, I speaks.

The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.

Who are you?' 'They call me Good-Looking Joe,' the stranger replied. 'You gave yourself that name, right?' Joe laughed. 'Only the Joe part.

What have we done with our twin sister that the culture has forced us to abandon at birth?" So many Middle Eastern poets and

One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like flowers, I don't like machines, I don't like sugar, I don't like pepper, I don't like what you like.' This was addressed to whoever attacked Ernest.

But life isn't about finding yourself or finding anything, Dylan said, it's about creating yourself.

would not be human and therefore would have different

Insult me all you want, you red-eyed son of the devil," Ernie roared in a very good imitation of Muhammad Ali. "We both know who wears the pants in my house, if I choose to wear pants at all. I have committed to nothing, and I am the king of my castle!" "You want to call me back after you call and get permission?" "You know it, brother.

I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you're trying to fit in.