Quotes About Uniqueness

I look for stories that are different because that is how I will grow as a performer.

As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

I've been in a lot of different factions my whole career, and all the guys who made up those factions are different performers. For example, if you look at the Undisputed Era as a whole, I'm very different than Roderick Strong, who's very different from Kyle O'Reilly, who's very different from Bobby Fish.

When we came up, groups and bands and performers were interested in being their own thing. They wanted to make sure that they had their own identity.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame.

One resists categorization at one's peril.

Since he was 17 years old in Atlanta, I think people always knew that there was something different about Key. He's obviously been able to adapt to so many sounds and time periods in his own way, which is clear from the long list of collaborators; but he has always retained an effortlessly weird perspective.

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

Our audience isn't One Direction, Katy Perry, Rihanna fans.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

The world has many kings but only one Michelangelo.

Excellent things are rare.

The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

She's the only fabulous thing in the world of echoes.

What makes you different, makes you so beautiful.

Me dicas vriardâ de jorpoy, bus ne sino braco. (proverbe bohémien: Je suis habillée de laine, mais je ne suis pas mouton.)