Sonya Deville Quotes

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

I'll be the first to admit when I'm influenced by something.

As you get older, you realize you're not that cool. You also realize the people you called posers are just people like you.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Conformity is an imitation of grace.

What Americans seem to prefer — or at least the subset of them who live on social media — is a private square of people who already agree with them. The most successful of these preachers we call “influencers,” which basically means they get paid to manipulate you, and somehow you listen to them anyway.

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.