Joel Osteen Quotes

Rather be dead than cool.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

You can be normal if you choose to be.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

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

I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

In our society, no one dares to be themselves.

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

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

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet - I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.