Quotes About Individuality

I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!

There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

Fashion is a way to orchestrate the spectacle of ideas. You can get someone who is fashionable but not terribly stylish, and the other way round.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.

Honestly, I don't think anyone confuses me with Wes Anderson. He's in his own terrific universe, but not the kind anyone would mistake for mine.

I don't think I am competing with Hardik. He is a terrific cricketer. Yes, we are all-rounders, but we are different from each other.

I'm terrified of cliches.

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

I wasn't the class nerd, but I was weird. I could tell long stories and be funny, but I couldn't do sports. And I was always terrified of being held back.

All of my friends are like, 'Look at me when I was a little kid. I was so cute!' and it's a picture of them in a tutu. I'm so terrified to show them my pictures, because it's me in boy shorts and a ponytail and my brother's shirt.

When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.

I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.

I had always known that I was 'different.' I didn't really understand it all until I got older. But there was always this foreboding sense something was 'wrong.' I never knew how to talk about it. I just remember feeling terrified about what would happen if someone found out. It was a very lonely feeling.

I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.

Painting my nails was one of the things I liked to do, and I was so terrified of, like, ever letting anybody see my nails painted.

The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.

I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way we've all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there's only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That's as damaging as anything else.

I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.

I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.