Roland Barthes Quotes

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

I is another.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

I am not like any other singer in America - I am a new creation.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

I don't see myself as exotic.

Identitarianism assumes that people are condemned to identify with the positive (ethnic/ gender/ nationalistic) predicates they possess, as if their subjectivity were exhausted by those properties. Exactly the opposite is the case: the authentic dimension of subjectivity consists not in any positive identity but in that which makes identifications.

I'm just a real person, not a caricature.

I don't pretend to be anybody else but me.

I want to be unique and original and truthful.

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.

Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be 'somebody.' You just be yourself, and suddenly you are unique, incomparable. That's why I say that this is a paradox: those who search fail, and those who don't bother, suddenly attain.

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.