Alexander McQueen Quotes

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.

Be you. Everyone else is already taken.

Don't let yourself be small because you want to fit in.

I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me.

I'm never going to search for anyone's acceptance. I'm just going to be me, and people are eventually going to have to accept it.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

Be yourself, be an individual - people are scared to be themselves.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

I like feeling a bit of an outcast where I am. I've always been that way. Somehow, I fit in by not fitting in.

I think that Diwata does not fit that mold. She's loud, she's a huge personality, she's imposing. I don't know if I'm the same thing in that sense, but what gives me the joy in playing her is the total rejection of needing to fit in. It's so inspiring.

One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

Follow your own weird.

I don't mind not being cool.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

I must be allowed to be as I am.