Karl Pilkington Quotes

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

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.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

I don't care much about conforming.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I don't want to follow the herd.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

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

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

I don't take well to rules.

I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.