Quotes About Conformity

Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

You look like a normal person, if you can find a normal person who wants to look like that.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.