Quotes About Conformity

I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

I never dressed like a teddy boy, and I don't like shaving but you've got to do it.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.

There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.'

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

I definitely went through some dark teenage years. I wore black raccoon eyeliner every single day. I would be late to school if I didn't have time to put my eyeliner on.

It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a defiant teenager about it. Like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna like that because everybody likes it.'

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?'

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

I am very tall, and when you're a teenager, you want to be like everyone else. I used to slump a lot; it's very human at that stage to want to be part of the crowd and not want any part of you that is sticking out.

I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.

I was like other teenagers in the late 1960s; I too was very interested in having an Afro and getting rid of the perm that was in my hair.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.

I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.

I'd wear nice clothes and brush my teeth more often if I cared about what people thought.