Nicole Maines Quotes

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

No one is any one thing.

I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

I want to show the world that if you want to be a bearded lady you are allowed to do it without being discriminated against.

Everything about me was different.

I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

The world would be a boring place if we all looked the same.

I like being different people.

I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.