Chuck Eddy Quotes

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.

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'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

I don't feel pressure to act like other people or rap like other people, because I just can't.

I think people are afraid to be original.

I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn't weird enough, that I wasn't standing out enough. Wearing things to get people's attention - I didn't want to do any of that. I didn't want to compromise myself.

Express who you are in a world where everyone is the same.

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

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

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.