Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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

I've never been a yes man.

If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

I am not a conformist.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.

I was anti-conformist.

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

Don't follow leaders.

I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

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

I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.