Quotes About Nonconformity

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

There's a bunch of rules that I want to break. I have a rule-breaking streak.

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn't into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

Whenever a film doesn't follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today's commercial cinema, it's considered weird.

I really don't have an interest in it and people think I'm a freak because I'm not obsessed by 'Strictly Come Dancing' but it just doesn't appeal to me. I'm really sorry but I can't get into it. You get treated like a complete pariah if you don't like things like that!

No one can dictate what I will wear and I am strictly against such moral guardianship.

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.

Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.

I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.

I didn't do well in school, and I didn't really care to cater to certain social structures that were in place to be cool.

I think there's a large worry in queer communities about imitating straight people, when queerness has its own identity and maybe can be a radical force that should be dismantling stuff that locks people into structures.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

I'm just living my life the way I want to live it, as opposed to the way people think I should live it.