Christine and the Queens Quotes

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

Keep your mind open about what you want to do and be true to yourself. So many people are governed by what's 'in' or copy something that someone else has done.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

It's not like I have all the answers.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you genuinely want to read and don't settle.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

I love it when a director says, 'I don't know.'

If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You are very similar to everybody else in the world. You love, you hate, you have friends, you have enemies. Be who you are.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

I've always been one of those people who wondered 'What if...'

The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.

It is much easier to imitate something else that you know is accepted and loved than it is to look inside and follow your own compass, because you have no idea if you'll be accepted, if you'll be right, if your ideas are good, if your way is a path to success.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, “Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.