Gary Dourdan Quotes

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

I'm a little unconventional; I do things a little differently.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

I like being unconventional.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

I don't do things by the book.

I don't think there's anything traditional about me.

I'm quite un-traditional.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

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