Jennifer Garner Quotes

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

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

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

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.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretch.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

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.

I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.

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

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

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