Quotes About Conformity

I was never a rebel or anything like that early on.

Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.

When I decided to become an actress, I think I let some people down. It was a kind of rebellion.

When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.

My character on 'Veep' doesn't have an ounce of rebellion.

Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.

I went through a rebellious phase, and was super into doing crazy hair things. I did only wear black for my junior year of high school. I was one of those kids.

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

I don't feel any great need to dress in funny-looking clothes and be recognized as a star, nor do I get that much satisfaction out of hanging around all the main clubs so people can see who I am.

Flawed Design' is a song on the record and it explores why people feel a need to present themselves maybe not necessarily as what they actually are. It seems like in society, a lot of people want to be or try to be perfect.

Record companies, they're just like lemmings.

I've had a record deal before and I was willing to do whatever they wanted me to do and I thought that would be it. By the end of it, you know, I hated myself.

I don't really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

I'm just really good at blending in. If you look at how I've grown up, I wasn't the best, so hanging back comes more naturally.