Quotes About Nonconformity

I like breaking the rules.

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

I'm not a bro.

I like rules that are broken.

I had always broken the rules.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

I like girls who look like they never brush their hair. That's the key to real style.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Me, I'm a lazy bum, so I don't shave.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I don't really believe there is such a thing as bad fashion - it is all self-expression, which used to get me into trouble when I was a little girl because I think I started wearing heels when I was about ten, and I always refused to wear matching socks.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.

I think, and I don't know if it's because of 'Searching for Sugar Man,' but South Africans seem to not have to go with what's popular but what they like, and that's refreshing.

Every movie that I've picked, from my first film on, has been considered by everyone to be 'career suicide.' And I have an amazing life. I have an amazing career. I work with artists. But I'm not making 'Spider-Man.'

I prefer jeans to a suit, sneakers to high heels, markets to malls.

I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic.