Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.

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

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

I'll always be an outrageous character.

I don't want to be predictable at all.

When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.

I’m a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.

I don't do the things other people call "play."