Quotes About Conformity

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.

On Broadway, there is no censoring, just self-censorship and doing what makes sense.

I guess there's a part of me that loves institutionalism. And borstal is tailor-made for you to buck against. It was perfect.

Growing up in the '70s, if you were a girl or woman, a man could tell you what to do - if you were sitting on the bus: 'Get up,' 'Move,' whatever. You did what you were told.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

It's not that I don't want to do different films. The non-mainstream stuff that I did started to get successful... But for an industry which runs essentially on money, they do put you in a box.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

I was a good student until I turned 15. Then, all of a sudden, it didn't matter to me anymore. Isn't that funny. I don't want to go to college. I always knew that. But it's hard. My friends are going, and I feel a little left behind.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

I don't think a lot of people are calling me to play doctors and lawyers, which is fine with me. I can put a suit on, but I don't really like to.

In the first band I was ever in, we all had to wear a matching grey suit. I hated that.

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

Most of the people interviewing me are far more square than me. I think it's the ET thing. I'm sitting there, my hair is combed, and I'm in a suit.

If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.