Quotes About Nonconformity

I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

I'll give up smoking when I die, and I'll settle down when I die. Until then, I'm gonna have a good time.

Whether it is 'Pyar Ke Side Effects,' 'Mithya,' 'Khosla Ka Ghosla,' 'No smoking,' all my films have been different from regular Bollywood movies.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

I've never been the type of person that puts things on a shelf or, like, needs to clean my sneakers every day. I just wear what I like.

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it. I'm not a snob about which looks are 'this season' and which are 'last season.'

I was never a fashion snob.

Keep your mind open about what you want to do and be true to yourself. So many people are governed by what's 'in' or copy something that someone else has done.

if she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that.

Sviluppate la vostra legittima stranezza.

Imagine living your life without the fear of being judged by others. You no longer rule your behavior according to what others may think about you. You are no longer responsible for anyone's opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you, either.

You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.

In the broad field of Russian letters in the USSR, I was the one and only literary wolf. I was advised to dye my fur. Absurd advice. You can dye a wolf, clip a wolf - he still doesn't look like a poodle. - to Joseph Stalin, May 30, 1931

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules.

Daarom betekende romanschrijver zijn voor mij meer dan het beoefenen van een van de vele 'literaire genres'; het was een houding, een weten, een positie, een positie die elke identificatie met een politiek, met een religie, met een ideologie, met een moraal of een collectiviteit uitslot; een bewuste, hardnekkige, woedende niet-identificatie, niet opgevat als ontsnapping of passiviteit, maar als verzet, als uitdaging, als revolte.

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.