Veronica Lake Quotes

I don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I couldn't care less about what people think of me! I do what I do, and I don't care about what other people think is cool. I don't care about image!

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.

We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, bankers, we want to be ourselves.

I've never been traditional, and I hate conforming to anything.

It kind of feels cool to be the outsider.

I think my brand is just being authentic and being me. Everybody goes right, I go left.

I'm in my own little lane, doing just me. I don't have to fit in.

They call me Caveman because I don't care what others think of me.

I was anti-conformist.

I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too.