Quotes About Originality

That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.

When you think 'Peaky Blinders,' when it first began it got mixed reviews and people didn't know what to do with it, and it was like: 'Why is there modern music on this?' So I think whenever you do something different you're going to get that response.

We always did our own mixing.

You know Seth and Evan, they were lead writers for 'Pineapple Express', and they are great at mixing things up. Taking different genres and mish-mashing them up to create something dynamically new. They'll throw comedy at you, but with a dash of horror and fright that is supposed to make you shocked and scared.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

I model irregular clothing.

I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Those old '90s models when women were just themselves and they were real and they were embraced that way - I think we should get back to that.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Shah Rukh Khan is a self-made man, and he does inspire with what he does. It is foolish to think that one can try and imitate or modify what he does. I have been original in my performances so far.

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more.

Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it.

It's easy to think you have to fit some kind of mold.

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

I would love to just continue playing characters that break the mold. I like making interesting decisions when playing characters, so, taking something that would seem one way and then playing it a different way.

I was able to be influential and create a mold. There was no one else who was shaped like me or looked like me.

I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!

As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.