Amy Schumer Quotes

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

As a film-maker, I certainly don't want to be put into some box.

People aren't allowed to be themselves in snooker.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

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.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

Rather be dead than cool.

We're all weirdos, and people want to work so hard to fit into society, but it's like, no matter what you do, you're never going to be what society depicts as what's perfect, because that's not real. The only point that you have to make is that 'I'm being me.'

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

I'm not cutting my hair because I'm not going to be fake.

In our society, no one dares to be themselves.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

I think that was my biggest fear - censoring myself and putting myself into a cookie cutter to be representative. But I think what I realised is we don't need that.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

I look at it like this: I'm being myself, everybody else in my industry is faking it.