Quotes About Conformity

In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.

I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.

During my time in the Dolls, I was told that I shouldn't sing, that I wasn't allowed, and I suppose that had an impact on me.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

I like to have personality in my way of dressing. I think being normal is a bit boring.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

I shouldn't be called eccentric. I should be called a normal guy.

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

For so long I felt like I needed to be 18, 19, 20 years old because that's what the entertainment industry tells you.

What makes you the establishment is if you buy into it.

I tried to play the etiquette game - the respect game - for too long, and it didn't work out for me.

I want to make big movies - but I don't want to have to die a little death every single time I do. Until I meet the people or the studio or the business people who will let me do things a little bit more the way that I need to do them, I probably shouldn't be making big studio movies.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think.

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