Quotes About Unconventionality

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

You'll like it here; everyone is quite mad.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.

Y a lo mejor esto constituye la más grande virtud del hombre, su toque divino. El último de los atorrantes de Flores es más interesante que una estrella, solamente porque su comportamiento no es predecible.

Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

Everything is customised, from my watches to my phone. I like my things to be different.

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.

I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.

I just don't conform very well.

I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter.

I'm really happy that people understand that man-repelling is a good thing. I was afraid people would think I was mocking fashion, and it's like, 'No, I swear, I'm wearing feathered sleeves as I write this!'

discovery starts with anomalies.

Crazy is a species under no threat at all.

It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey.....

Everyone's life is interesting, if it's different from your own.

Minds need the unusual, because the unusual has the power to shake the mind!

If you ain't crazy, there's something wrong with you.

If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

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Rules don't apply here," laughed Lisa. "Dennis, you can be whoever you want to be!" 9