Barry Zito Quotes

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

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 do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

Identitarianism assumes that people are condemned to identify with the positive (ethnic/ gender/ nationalistic) predicates they possess, as if their subjectivity were exhausted by those properties. Exactly the opposite is the case: the authentic dimension of subjectivity consists not in any positive identity but in that which makes identifications.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I must be allowed to be as I am.

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

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

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.