Robert Orben Quotes

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

I look like everyone.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.'

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

I want to stress to people to be themselves instead of trying to be like others.

I don't want to be someone else.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.