Jonny Wilkinson Quotes

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

I just can't help but see things differently.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Without trying, I'm different.

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?

I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.

Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

A perfectionist? That's part of my job.

I feel like I'm just built differently.

I have a lot of critics, and that's fine. I think it's better to be polarizing than to be vanilla. I also think people can't question the passion and sincerity that I bring because I truly am the luckiest guy in the world.

I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'

My band's motto is 'Yngwie or the highway.' Do you think Leonardo Da Vinci allowed someone who came later to add to his paintings? It's impossible. That's the whole issue. I'm not a typical rock n' roll guitarist nor a simple band member.

Throughout my career I have done it my way and used my stubborn streak. I thought the best way to captain was to shut out all the noise - I did it with my batting and thought 'that has served me well, so why change it?'

In my work I try to get things right, to do it well, and if there are specific skills involved - like in a case conducting or playing the piano, or in this film I have coming up where I play a character who is German - I'm very meticulous about learning accents and dialects and those kinds of things. That's probably the closest I come to being a perfectionist.