Toyah Willcox Quotes

Has it ever happened to you that you actually like a rogue more than a so-called honest citizen? Have you ever wondered why? I believe that this can only be so because a rogue is more original and more his own. He is what he is.

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

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

Where's your will to be weird?

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I don't care much about conforming.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

I am not a normal man.

Let's embrace being not normal!

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

I've always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn't matter if they were in film or music or fashion.

I'm a little unconventional; I do things a little differently.

I love being unconventional because that's the reason I stand out.

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.

I am not a conformist.

I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter.

I don't like doing what people would expect of me.

I always wanted to be different. If it was different I liked it. And it wasn't because I was just trying so hard to be different, it's just by nature.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.