Quotes About Uniqueness

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

It's important to recognise every player is different in their own characteristics, personality, and what they respond to.

One of the main things I look for in a guitarist is in the sound itself. I go for a certain sound, and I think it's an important thing for making a player more identifiable in the big giant pool of musicians out there. You want a sound that people will recognise just as much as your playing.

I never get recognised. I must have one of those forgettable faces, ha! And that's not a bad thing.

More and more, I realise I have a distinct voice, which I didn't realise! You know, it's just my voice. I had no idea. A lot of times, people will say now, 'I recognised you from your voice,' which is interesting to me.

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.

I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.

Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.

Try to be creative in everything you do, then only you will get recognized by the society.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

Like for 'Black Nails,' I just had black nails - and I never have black nails. It was my first and last time getting black nails. And that's so not normal for me. So when you're recording, you're up at the mic and you gotta name the file, so I just look down and I'm like, 'Black Nails!' That's literally what it was.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

We will never recreate 'Iowa.'

They made it very clear that I shouldn't try to be Data because there is only one Data, you can't ever recreate the magic that Brent Spiner made.

Don't recreate something that's already been created and is good. You want to have an idea, think of different idea. Don't think of someone else's idea.

I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!

Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.