Quotes About Nonconformity

I think, since the beginning, I have been attracted to unconventional films.

I think I always had an unconventional career because I didn't fit the mould of the conventional heroine.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

I love being unconventional because that's the reason I stand out.

I was completely unconventional in everything, which my mother found very difficult. I was a huge tomboy.

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

I was always interested in the fringes of culture and society and in expressing myself in a distinctively different way, like always rooting for the underdog, that kind of thing.

I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

There will always be an underground.

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

I don't care about the underground, even if that's where I'm currently residing sonically.

I represent a kind of underground, punk side of drag.

One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

Dare to be different.

Thanks God that he created me dumb and crazy enough to believe that I can create and invent in other than what i studied in and what they want me to be.

Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.