Quotes About Originality

There has to be some newness in the story or, at least, some aspect of the movie. I get bored if the story is told in the same way all the time. I get bored easily.

I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

I'm not going to be the next anything. I'm going to be the first me, and someone's going to follow, and then they'll be the next me.

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

For so long, TV consisted of a limited number of shows a year, and those shows had to appeal to as many people as possible. The joy of TV now is that shows don't have to be broad anymore - they can be small, weird, and niche.

I chose taking the hard road and creating my own niche and getting my own fan base.

I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.

I don't have any nicknames.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

A lot of guys come out, and they do the exact same thing, are in the exact same mood, and have the exact same entrance every night, I really just make up a lot of crap as I go along.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

Nintendo, as a company, prides itself on doing things differently.

The advantage for Nintendo is that we always try to do things that other companies don't try to do. That is something that the general public appreciates.

Creativity has no boundaries.

When there's no boundaries, that's when you can get creative.

Genius is of no country.

To be abundantly clear, No Doubt is four people, and that could never be recreated or replicated.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.' You have no idea of the competition.

There are so many times I turn on the radio, and I hear a guy, and I have no idea who it is because it sounds like four other people.

It is much easier to imitate something else that you know is accepted and loved than it is to look inside and follow your own compass, because you have no idea if you'll be accepted, if you'll be right, if your ideas are good, if your way is a path to success.

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.