Quotes About Conformity

Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.

I would gladly give up my driver if it's not conforming. But there's still 130 other players in the field that potentially have a nonconforming driver, as well.

People expect me to live in a picture-perfect Pottery Barn kind of place, but I don't like anything traditional.

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

It is certainly not how I've been brought up and it's not in my blood to play cricket in that safety-first way.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

Don't think that you can go to Washington and dress as an individual. If you want to avoid criticism, you need to be a twin-set-sweater-and-pearls type of girl.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.

No boys liked Take That, and it was weird if you did because they danced around and wore matching clothes. But I didn't grow up with a dad who told me something was manly or not manly.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

Networks are reluctant to take a chance. They put on shows that they know will work on some level, but to get the innovative show, it's very difficult.

I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.