Sharon Stone Quotes

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

I love being a freak. It's great!

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

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

I've always liked the idea of being different.

I enjoy being different.

I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

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.

I wanted to stand out and look different. It wasn't nothing that was done purposely, or I was going to be the guy who wears pink forever. It was something for me to stand out.

I pride myself on being unique in my own right. I wanted to be myself.

I definitely stuck out like a sore thumb. I came to the conclusion - I had to at such a young age - if no one was going to be like me, then I just have to own it. If I can't be like everyone else, then I might as well just own who I am.

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.