Quotes About Uniqueness

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.

I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

What is unusual is not always threatening. What is different is not necessarily strange.

My dad was this pint-sized Nigerian with an oversized personality. My mother is a tall six foot something Irish-English woman. Us walking down the street was quite an unusual sight, when I was growing up.

The interesting thing about Laika is that it's very much an island of misfit toys. It's unusual people with strange talents and very unusual passions who have somehow found each other.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down, and others chew side-to-side, like cows. Your oral processing habits are a physiological fingerprint.

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.

I think that what makes you cool at the end of the day is letting go, not being superficial or uptight, and being different.

It's very important to not repeat yourself. After 'Delhi Belly,' I was offered 40 'Delhi Belly's and you can't do that! So 'Revolver Rani' is dark and gritty with action, 'Sooper Se Oopar' is a big commercial love story, 'Santa Banta' is a 'theth' Punjabi comedy, 'Golu Aur Pappu' is a kids' film and 'Amit Sahni Ki List' is an urban romcom.

Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Work Hard, Enjoy what you do and be good to other human beings, we all equal, Being a good persons whats make you special.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.