Quotes About Nonconformist

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

There is no such thing as a standard, run-of-the-mill, human being.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

I'm not very good at business. I'm more of a creative, fun-loving hippie type.

I'm such a hippie.

I wasn't a Deadhead, and I didn't follow a band around, but I definitely was an old hippie.

My personal feeling is that Bernard Hopkins has never been an industry boy.

I think different. And I can think different if I want to.

channeling our best hours into first-order objectives, and that means being a nonconformist in the best sense. "Everyone" might say finishing Harvard should be the most important task for a young Bill Gates. Instead, he aligned his efforts with his mission, despite any disapproving glances from well-meaning people.

I'm an individual, and an individual can't follow and doesn't want to lead.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.

My style is not like anyone's. I'm not a typical wrestler.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

If I had to describe myself using only one word it would be doesn't follow directions.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

I am kind of the guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.