Gary Ross Quotes

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn't work for me. I don't love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I'd want to live my life in truth.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.

Express who you are in a world where everyone is the same.

I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.