Karen Civil Quotes

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

I try not to do anything by formula.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

If people are making fun of you then you're probably doing something right.

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.