John Green Quotes

The magic of 'Jack' is that it's unique, there's not a lot of stuff like it.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

You look just like you!

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.

I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vulnerable embarrassing place, it's going to be universal, and it's going to be entertaining. Because everyone is the same, and everyone is unique.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego's hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It's the stuff that's - that no one's ever heard before is really interesting.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

What I have done here no one has done before.

When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.

The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.

I'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.