Mayer Hawthorne Quotes

I love doing things people don't expect.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

I don't want to be predictable at all.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

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

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

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

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

It's important to be unconventional.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

I have always lived my life outside of the box. I find it to be way more fun there.

I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.

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 want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.