Christian Slater Quotes

A lot of people have said that I'm trying to be like Justin Bieber by wearing a hat all the time. But the truth is, I don't like the way my hair looks. It's kind of weird, so I wear a hat all the time to cover it. I've been doing it since I was thirteen.

For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.

People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

When you get into comparisons in any way of, 'we want it to be like this' or 'we don't want it to be like this,' it takes away from the authenticity of what you're trying to say and what you're trying to make.

Growing up, I had really big hair. Giant hair. As I got older, the goal was to make it smaller - I wanted to look like everyone else. So I got a weave. I would manipulate my hair and try to make it straight.

There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.'

The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.

Being in somebody else's thing and saying their words and not having any right to change it - I don't know how I'd deal with that. I'd like to think I could do it, but I just know I've got a dead particular taste.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

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

The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.

I am so sick and tired of being told what I'm supposed to look like!

Why can't I say anything normal?

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

Most people are other people.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?