Quotes About Conformity

I'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on.

I remember wearing old long johns, my dad's silk paisley dressing gown, chopped off at the waist, and lots of crucifixes - trying to look like Madonna. But I wasn't breaking any moulds, I was just trying to follow somebody else.

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it.

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

I didn't do anything with the thought that I want to go against society or bend any rules.

Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

I was waiting for all other actresses to wear a bikini first so I can just follow the bandwagon.

I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One less thing to worry about.

You can't play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it's going to ruin the song.

I think a lot of me trying to blend in was me co-opting the racism that was used against me in a way - being OK with it.

Bad people always want to blend into a crowd.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

At a mall you can almost get frostbite, it's so boring. Looking different is worth a lot.

The rules within the educational system really teach you not push the boundaries, or not to think outside the box. They teach you to think inwardly about what's in the box.

I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.