Quotes About Uniqueness

If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.

I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

Crazy is a relative term, you know. Everybody is unique in their own way and some people work harder for longer hours than others.

If two-three films of mine release at the same time and if all of them feel like they are from the same lyricist then something is not quite right. The language of all has to be different if they are different stories.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

If you are in a hiring position, hire someone that is nothing like you. We keep looking for the commonalities, but find someone with commonalities that are nothing like you.

I really admire Ed Sheeran. He seems to have really beaten his way through and I think that's fantastic. He's his own man - good for him. But there aren't many of him out there.

Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth.

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

When I was little, I thought that everyone wanted to hold me as a baby because I was this thing of fascination. But rather than this thing that wasn't quite right, I just felt that my difference was something that was probably very exotic.

This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries - and my son won't even look at berries. Isn't that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don't like Coldplay.

If I was just a guy who hit 24 home runs and drove in 100, I wouldn't be a special player.

What I learned on 'Homicide' was that each show deserves its own look.

What it is you do, no one else does. Just hone in on it, and just get better and greater.

There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I hoped people would take me as I am. It doesn't matter where I come from.

The last thing you want to do is blend in. You want to stand out, and hopefully in a good way.

Everyone has a different colour as an actor. And the composite of all those colours hopefully creates something that's fun to watch.