Quotes About Conformity

At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.

The perpetuation of family and cultural pressures to conform to prescribed masculine behaviors is what creates social isolation and distress in many young gay and trans people of color.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

We don't pretend to disagree.

If I don't belong because of what I think and because of my opinions, then so be it. What can one do about it? One can't bend over backwards or pretend to be someone else just to belong. And in any case, it doesn't work. Once you no longer belong, it's over.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

I've been pretending to be normal for so much of my life.

I see society as something dangerous, and you have to save yourself from the rules. I think acting is the way I save myself.

In our society, no one dares to be themselves.

I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.

I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

I don't go to Delhi malls, because malls are the same everywhere.

I am extremely, annoyingly compliant. I hate breaking the rules, and I love it when people tell me what to do and I can deliver.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

I was lifelong Democrat just because, well, you know, monkey-see, monkey-do. I was just doing everything that my family was doing.

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.

Where I am from, people are into designer brands, but not, like, the cool ones, just like any designer brand, and I wasn't that type.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

You can lose who you are so easily when you're being so many things to so many different people.

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.