Quotes About Nonconformity

People should be able to do what they want in life and not be judged or put in a box or a category.

I like to wear whatever I like. I don't care about others' judgment or if it's right or wrong.

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

For a while, I drank the juice - I did things the way everybody else said to. I listened to their advice. But it didn't work.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

We've never been squeaky-clean from the jump. We've never been Disney or Sesame Street, you know.

It definitely wasn't cool in junior high, when everyone else is trying out for cheerleading, to have a life consumed by ballet.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that's what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I'd just be like everybody else.

Everyone has contributed to the Women's Evolution in their own way, and I hope that my message can just be it's okay to not look like the rest, it's okay to not fit in, it's okay to be yourself and be different.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

You don't want other people to tell you what to do your whole life. And if you feel like shaving your hair off, then you just do it.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

Cool is just something we've never been.

I don't do anything keeping Bollywood in mind.

I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be.

There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

School was never for me, kinda.

It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.

We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.