Ned Vizzini Quotes

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Nothing is more to me than myself.

The ego and the personality have to be dropped, then you will find individuality arising...a feeling of uniqueness. Yes, you are unique. Everybody else is also unique. In this world only unique people exist, so comparison is just stupid, because you alone are like yourself. There is nobody like you, so how to compare?

Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.

If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.

The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else but Future. When you look at me, I want you to say, 'Future.' The way I talk, the way I dress, there's nobody in the world but me.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.