Billy Porter Quotes

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

I stand out a little bit with my hair, so I make sure I wear a hood!

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today's competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.

When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.

You are you, and nobody else can do what you do. But a little talent can help.

I've used some of my differences as a way to stand out and to hopefully count and matter - and hopefully create an opportunity for others.

You have to be, become, the musician who can't be replaced.

I have to say that the biggest lesson I have learned is to find your way to stand out.

If you don't stick out then how do you expect to be remembered? I want to be one of those guys who is actually remembered.

The last thing you want to do is blend in. You want to stand out, and hopefully in a good way.

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.

That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.

In order to make a name for myself I took notice of the craziest wildest son-of-a-guns out there, and how they would receive a lot of the attention from the local wrestling periodicals. I decided that I would become an oddity, and that's how I have existed ever since.

We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.

You should dress so that somebody remembers you.

I don't want to be just the latest curiosity.

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 live by the business model that there is a better than, a less than, or a different than. Those are the three categories. I chose to be different than. The one that's different than will stand out with the proper work ethic.