Quotes About Originality

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.

I like being orange and having eyelashes that go up to my forehead.

When I want to feel especially grateful, I think about the early days dressing up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

I named my album 'So Uncool' because it defies the ordinary: you're different from everyone else. It's like, being uncool makes you cool because you're different!

I do a film because at that particular moment, I want to make a film. It is my attempt at moving away from the ordinary.

I'm very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it's a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It's never calculated.

Oh, everything we did was completely organic - from the way we looked to the way we sounded, the way we played - everything.

It's about me doing me, about me being organic. I can't wear things and put on a front and say I like something when I don't. I won't wear something I wouldn't normally wear just for people to like it or for people to look at me like this or that in fashion.

The whole '400 Degreez' album was inspired by what Outkast was doing, Organized Noize. That was what I was listening to around that time.

Unapologetically, absent me, there is no Deadpool. Period. I am the name, the costume, the look, the origin, and the attitude. Great one-liners are the result of other writers. But there's no Deadpool at all in existence without me.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.