Vicky McClure Quotes

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.

I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

I think there's kind of a comfortability with me onstage - and I think my cool factor is not having one. I'm not extra cool or extra different.

I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't have a problem.

Someone was always trying to put down my individuality and personality, making me sing Mozart arias that were nothing to do with me.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

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.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

I don't want to change the world, I don't want the world to change me.

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

Don't you dare alter your inner freak.

I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

Be comfortable; be you. What's most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you can't go wrong!

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.