Mr. T Quotes

I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.

Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I am not trying to chase what other people are doing.

I want to be sure I'm being myself. I don't want to follow something because someone's like 'do this, it's popular.'

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

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.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

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

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.