Scott Porter Quotes

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

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

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

As a film-maker, I certainly don't want to be put into some box.

We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.

I don't feel like I've ever fit into a specific mold ever since I was very young. That's what so cool about YouTube is that you can do whatever you want.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.

I don't want to emulate anyone.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

When you really do feel like an alien, and you really do feel like a space creature, and you really do feel you want to experiment and dress up and be different every day, to find what looks best but never stick to one thing... Just the fact that that was offered to those kids during that time is pretty remarkable.

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.