Dan Bilzerian Quotes

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

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.

It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.

I love being the underdog. I'm cool in my dog house.

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

My eccentricity became direction.

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I could be the one that created 4chan and, as he put it, 'couldn't understand how to fit the square peg into a round hole.' The best way I have of describing it is, 'I didn't define it, and it doesn't define me.'

I've never been traditional, and I hate conforming to anything.

I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.

I know a little about CM Punk in that he does his own thing. I'm inspired by people who do that in their own life. That they just do their own thing no matter what the consequences are.

Anytime you kind of take the road that I've taken, people don't know what to expect.

Not a lot of people take advantage of that opportunity of being different. A lot of kids that are highly touted coming out of high school, like, doing the traditional thing and going to the blue bloods and all that, but I was always different growing up.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

I've been anything but an establishment kind of guy.

It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester.

I'm quite un-traditional.

I'm not like, 'I act.' I'm like, 'I'm kinda floating. I kinda did this movie; it was kinda like going to camp, and I don't really know what any of this means!'

I know so many people that were really able to lead 'perfect' lives. They meet the right person, they make the babies, they get the jobs, they get the house and it's essentially a smooth ride. That really didn't happen for me.

I consider my path to be very different than anyone else's in wrestling and that's kind of something I pride myself in.