Paul Arden Quotes

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

It's important to be unconventional.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

The only way I was going to be funny was if I was myself, and either you liked it, or you didn't. Either you got on my train, or you didn't. Freeing myself of this idea that I had to fit a certain mold was when I was able to be my funniest.