Sam Hunt Quotes

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

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

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.

Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.

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

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way.

Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

I'm a snowflake. And so are you. Your children are snowflakes. And so are mine. And those who protest the loudest about not being snowflakes? I can see your six-fold ice crystals from here! Because every person, empirically, is unique.

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

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