Quotes About Unconventional

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

My work life is pretty much the opposite of what you would expect.

I typically do the opposite of what people think I am going to do.

Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center.

I don't think I'm the 'Oprah' type.

We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.

I never wanted to be ordinary. I never just wanted to do one thing.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings who behave differently than ordinary human beings. If they weren't as sensitive as they are, they wouldn't be great artists. They are not the same as us. People should just learn to accept that.

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family.

Who wants to be ordinary? Be extraordinary.

Sometimes you need a special player to do something out of the ordinary.

There's not too much opportunity to do that in ordinary life... there's not too much call for hatchet throwers.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

I'm not organised, and I don't cope well with deadlines, structure and routine. I'm chaotic. Always have been.

I don't sing beautifully or grandly or in a very 'moving' way. I am me - which is not very beautiful at times, and not very organised or regular.

Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.

I love to take something very commonplace and reuse it in an original way.

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

I haven't had an orthodox career.

I know I'm not the most orthodox kind of player. I just feel normal being like that.

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.