Balthazar Getty Quotes

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Growing up, I probably raised a bit more hell than I should have.

I'm just not interested in the norm. The only example I can give you is I can't go to a hairdresser and talk about holidays. I just don't live in that world. It's not me.

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

I am not a normal man.

I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.

I was a little rebellious growing up.

Everyone always asks, 'Did you ever rebel? Did you dye your hair blue? Did you wear black nail polish?' I mean, of course, there have been episodes when you wear weird-colored lipstick... But generally, I think I was pretty much the way I am now.

I went through this rebel period where I didn't want to dress up.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

Has it ever happened to you that you actually like a rogue more than a so-called honest citizen? Have you ever wondered why? I believe that this can only be so because a rogue is more original and more his own. He is what he is.

I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.

I would not be very comfortable doing the regular thing which we see on TV.

You can't be a punk all your life.

I liked Dalgety Bay, but my life did not revolve around the house. I was a teenager there, and these things aren't that important at that age.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.

Purple has always been my favorite color... but purple, when I was a little kid, was a color that boys weren't really allowed to wear. That's what all the kids at school told me. I filled my wardrobe with as much purple as I could possibly find, because who cares? Life's too short to dress by other people's rules.

My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take pictures of the punk parties in the desert. She used to have blue hair, and she got kicked out of Las Vegas Day School for having blue hair.

I was like, weird on purpose. I wanted to be an outcast.

I think I always had an unconventional career because I didn't fit the mould of the conventional heroine.