Donna Mills Quotes

I like being unconventional.

I don't want to follow the herd.

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

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 think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

I don't care much about conforming.

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

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

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I'm a total nonconformist; for me, it's about going down rabbit holes.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.