Rupert Friend Quotes

Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?

The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

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.

If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

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

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don't believe in 'super-men,' for the world is full of capable men, but it's the fellow with determination that wins out.

Let's embrace being not normal!

I never wanted to work a 9 to 5. I was always a different kid in class.

If you truly want to be great, don't get caught up in what has been done before or who has done it.

I'm aware that I don't look like the traditional or the stereotypical type of Hollywood starlet and that is OK with me.

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 love the idea of challenging what the standards is.

More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.

I don't think there's anything traditional about me.

I'm just not interested in the norm. The only example I can give you is I can't go to a hairdresser and talk about holidays. I just don't live in that world. It's not me.

I never took a path that was the usual path for someone in my generation. A lot of the women who I went to school with, in those days, it was still the track of becoming a teacher, becoming a nurse. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I didn't go down that path.

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

I was trying to be so perfect and so cookie-cutter because everyone's like, 'Aim for that Disney audience! Be perfect! Don't say anything wrong!' And it's just working out better for me just being me.

I dress differently, I don't conform to what golf is supposed to be.