Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

As a film-maker, I certainly don't want to be put into some box.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

I don't like labels.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

I don't care much about conforming.

I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

The free, self-determining, self-developing soul may not walk its own path, however innocently, but must fit into the scheme and pattern …

I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

I'm not scary. It's scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.