Quotes About Unconventionality

There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

The path less taken disinterests me while the path frequently taken appalls me. I'd rather find a path never taken before

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

When you're a kid, you might be picked on for your differences. When you're an adult, employers, colleges, friends - people look for differences when you're adult, and that's what makes you shine and stand out.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.

I wanna make weird stuff.

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

I was born with a different physical capacity to other people.

If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

It took me a while to process myself as a cat - it's not something you see every day.

TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different.

I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.

I've always enjoyed things a little more chaotic than most people would prefer. I feel that I run well in chaos.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

And there's a whole spectrum of behavior that we refer to politely as 'eccentricity.