Emre Can Quotes

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

I think it's good to do your own thing and want to be different, and not look like everyone else.

But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.

Marcelo has a completely different style from mine.

I can't be the same as another player. I am just my way and I will try to improve on that at Chelsea.

There have been a lot of French midfielders at Chelsea, but they did it their way and I do it my way and I hope I can do good things at Chelsea.

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play in Spanish football, which I've done, and then it was the Premier League, so it's all worked out OK.

I feel a very important factor to our longevity is that, over the years, we have managed to create our own unique identity and aesthetics.

If it is possible I want to finish my career at Manchester United.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

I wish to play again for West Ham before I finish my career.

There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.

Don’t try to be anybody else because that’s what makes you not swaggy.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

Style helps distinguish you . . . It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.