Quotes About Conformity

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it's your rules or the universe's rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.

You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

My beef was with essentially being a product. I didn't want to be a product, so I tried to get fired, but they didn't fire me, which was weird.

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

I think thinking for yourself is such a hard thing to do, because you just want to fit in in high school. So being comfortable with who you are is such a massive thing for a lot of people.

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.