Quotes About Nonconformity

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

I miss the willingness to go your own path and be original.

I'm not one of those pop guys. That's for wimps like Vanilla Ice.

I do admit that I've never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It's not my choice. It's just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that's the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she's going to stay that way.

Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Don't put wings on me; I am no angel.

I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests.

I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I'm completely anti-establishment; the only thing I like about the Queen are her scarves and her jewels.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

Rebellion is not always the right thing. Following the rules is not always the right thing. You have to think for yourself and identify the things that do not work for you.

I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.

Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!