Mark Salling Quotes

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

There are too many different kinds of people in this world. Not just drags or gays, everybody is different from each other. We should proudly own our individuality.

In Hyderabad, I suppose my height does pique people's interest, but it's not like it's unacceptable. If you are confident about what you are doing, height doesn't make a difference. You can't be perfect in everything, you know!

I wish people would look at me and think, 'Well, someone like that exists!' Accept the difference.

It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.

At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail and sometimes even when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive, enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

Different is not wrong.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.