Travis Fimmel Quotes

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

I do everything that everybody else does.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.