Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn't sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a 'talent' did not serve me well as a child. I didn't have friends. I was really an outcast.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

I make no concessions to conformism.

We didn't feel we fitted into the '80s.

In California, you want to have the strangest thing, be doing the strangest thing. People admire that.

I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

I'm not conventional. I try to be raw and vulnerable and gross.

I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

Until you prove yourself, modeling the behavior of iconoclasts is dangerous.

People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

I really want to be different.

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

You have to realize that people are always going to be confused or sometimes threatened by someone who has the confidence to do something different.

A famous man once said, 'A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.' Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.

My friends and me, we're the type that don't care. We're not into fashion. That's, like, millennial spirit.

I like being the hated one.

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.