Thora Birch Quotes

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'

I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.

I don't care much about conforming.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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

Rather be dead than cool.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done