Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

I'm just being myself, honestly. I know society puts it, Oh, this is masculine and this is feminine. I don't put myself in categories.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.

I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.

The reason I started drag in the first place is because I felt like I never really fit in, and I still don't feel like I fit in to any of those places: the drag world, the circus world or the burlesque world. I'm kinda this combination of everything, so it made sense to me that I'd set out to do my own solo show.

Some people, like myself, rock colored contacts, crazy hair, and black all year round.

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

We never looked quite right on paper, but that's what made us so great. We were exactly what we wanted to be...and that was happy.

Rules are made to be broken." - Jared

LOGAN: You see, Blake, the thing is, I don't give a sh*t what other people think.

LOGAN: ...Izzy could do whatever the hell she wanted. All she needed to do was not give a sh*t about fitting in.

Let's quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we've never really been.

I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.

'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.

Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing.