Peter Brook Quotes

I don't want to follow the herd.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

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.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

I don't like to be part of the cattle. I like to just do my own thing.