James Acaster Quotes

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Conforming is not cool.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

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

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

The nail that sticks out gets knocked down.

People don't want to be diverse, or they're scared to be diverse. People just dress a certain way to fit in but sometimes being outside of the box is the cool thing to do.

When you're younger, all you want to do is fit in, and then the older you get, you don't want to fit in, you want to stand out.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

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

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

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

As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

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