Elodie Yung Quotes

When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

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.

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

I don't ever want to be considered some vanilla sherbet kinda guy.

I love things which are different and shows which are different.

I always prided myself in being different.

People call me all kinds of things, I guess, because I'm a little different. I'm never what they expect.

I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that's what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I'd just be like everybody else.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

I don't like to look typical.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

I'm not an oddball.

I like to think I'm un-categorisable.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.