Richard Thompson Quotes

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

I'm not trying to be like everybody else. I want to be Clemson, and Clemson's not for everybody.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

Be yourself. No one else can.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

I can't be anybody but myself.

You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

I've always been into looking different.

I don't think I have a signature.