Quotes About Conformity

We live in an age of mediocrity.

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

I've been interested in acting since the age of 10. But as you grow up, when someone asks you what you want to become, you learn to answer it with a 'doctor/ engineer/astronaut' and your real dream of wanting to be an actor starts sounding ridiculous even to yourself.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

People are so codified - it's sad.

An actor always goes to the safe side.

I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm that interested in, in the comedy world. Everyone seems to be trying to play it safe.

It's always best when everyone in the group is on the same page.

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow you to do that.

Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

A lot of people behind the scenes were telling me that I was going to have to do something with my hair, my weight, all of that stuff.

Nobody wants to take a risk with scripts that push the envelope.

The '50s were a secretive time.

Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack.

It's very hard for me to be myself when I'm not in shoulder pads.

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I don't think I'd get employed if I did pastel eye and a side parting. People would say: 'Get someone else for the job!'