Quotes About Originality

I don't just try to be funny.

Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.

America is a commercial marketplace, and very few people are educated to understand artists or appreciate originality.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

You may have heard the old saying that "the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result." In marketing, we could say something very similar: the definition of insanity is doing the same things as your competitors and expecting to beat them.

On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.

Each of us was meant to be an original, but most of us die merely a copy. Anyone who discovers who God made him or her to be would never want to be anyone else.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity.

Everyone's got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.

I think one of the studio's characteristics is to embrace wholeheartedly what we feel is interesting; what we perceive to be worthwhile, cool, or beautiful; and to place these ideals at the foundation of the games we make.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's head on the wall.

If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.