Billy Carter Quotes

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

I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

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

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

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.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

I don't care much about conforming.

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.

What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

I don't care what other people think. I hate conforming, that you have to wear this to a business meeting or that to a dinner. I've never worked that way.

I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.

We all have those friends that tick to their drum, and you don't want them to tick to anybody else's drum.

If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.

More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.