Ryan Babel Quotes

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

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'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

I've never been traditional, and I hate conforming to anything.

I know a little about CM Punk in that he does his own thing. I'm inspired by people who do that in their own life. That they just do their own thing no matter what the consequences are.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

I was anti-conformist.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

I was never the girl next door.

I think that the reason why 'Goats' is called 'Goats' is because you can't give direction to goats. They do what they want. That's the point of this film.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.

I've never been a yes man.

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

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

I don't care much about conforming.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior.

You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who's called normal? What's normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That's fun to play.

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.