Quotes About Uniqueness

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it's her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.

If anyone thinks they have set a formula for success, that's not true. Because if that were to happen then people would only be copying that formula and every following film would be a copy alone.

Im at the point now where if someone thinks of me that way or boxes me in to be being just the child of, I just think that theyre being narrow-minded and not looking at the fact that Im very different from them and dont work with them.

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.

Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.

I am Thomas Muller, and I want to be like me.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?

You need to be different and stand out. You need to have a message. For me, it didn't come easily. The best advice I was ever given, though, is go away and write 100 songs. You need to find the music that's you.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.