Dallas Roberts Quotes

I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year I went to school in a pirate suit - I just didn't care. I'm not like the cool girls - I'm the other girl. The one that's basically a nerd, but proud of that.

I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out.

People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.

I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I like the idea of going on stage without makeup, without the hair being done, in the jeans and shirt I've been wearing all day. At first that was an issue, because I didn't want to be disrespectful.

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man.

I wore a Santa hat for a whole year in high school.

I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I'm used to.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

I went through a rebellious phase, and was super into doing crazy hair things. I did only wear black for my junior year of high school. I was one of those kids.

I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blond hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool.

I was kind of a tomboy. I was the girl in middle school with the floods on - I wasn't fashionable at all.

My rocking out didn't make me particularly popular with the boys or girls. It wasn't cute or feminine. I was more of a...weirdo.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

The last thing the world needs is another boring person or another boring brand, so embrace all the things that make you different. Alter your clothes all you want, but don't you dare alter your inner freak - she's got your back as much as I do.

I refuse to live a conventional life.