Quotes About Unconventionality

I've never been a particular fan of any genre.

I never wanted to be a good example.

I'm not an attractive fight for most people. I never have been. I haven't been called out too many times in my career, and there's a good reason for that.

There have been a lot of French midfielders at Chelsea, but they did it their way and I do it my way and I hope I can do good things at Chelsea.

He is called a free spirit who thinks differently from what, on the basis of his origin, environment, his class and profession, or on the basis of the dominant views of the age, would have been expected of him

We're all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

Being nuts is its own reward.

There are no normal people—just look at your relatives,

It's fun to be different, but not too different!

I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

she appeared in a dashing fur coat and very high heels, with a bottle of bootleg whiskey in a brown paper bag from which she drank all during the meeting, erupting into wild laughter

But what if it's someone who's not our type? Someone who wears the back of her collar up or something?' 

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt'ring eye and say, "Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?" The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.

I saw an old woman dressed in seatcovers, sewn into a dress, a man in a jacket made from a flag. It gave them an air of desperate grandeur, like guests at an asylum ball.

Correct is fine. But it is better to be interesting.

The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird.

Oamenii diferi?i vor lucruri diferite.