Quotes About Uniqueness

I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.

We all want to be normal, but it's relative to individuality. My normal is not your normal.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to dye my hair crazy colors.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the 'next' Kate Moss or the 'next' Gisele that it wasn't possible, because the 'next' girl wasn't going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models... they all have an individual look.

I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

We want every woman to have something unique, a wardrobe she can really make her own.

Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic.

All the roles that I have acted in were all special in a different way. But the role of Ri Jeong-hyeok had more warmth and innocence compared to the other roles that I have acted. I think it was more special in terms of expressing the role.

We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren't really Warrant or Poison. We were always outside the box. I think we had a little niche that nobody had - maybe the funkiness had something to do with it.

I am instinctively wary of identity politics. Ultimately, no two black men are the same, any more than two white men are the same.

A lot of times when people get copied, they get copied and washed out. But you can't even duplicate how we do it because it's just so genuine. It's just us.

I rinse my hair with Coca-Cola sometimes. I don't like my hair when it's washed - it's fine and limp - but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I've gone through the Amazon or something.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig." "Good. I think I'll try a different colour every night.

And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in any way shared, that it's a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don't find you and your dream utterly revolting.

After all these years of listening it seems to me that the essential quality of the human soul is uniqueness. Each of us is one of a kind. None of us has existed in the history of the human race before.