Mike Nichols Quotes

I'm just myself, man. I don't really do anything crazy.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

I was like little-miss wannabe punk-rocker; I would go home and secretly listen to Pink, and dance around, like, 'Ugh, she understands me so well!'

I love the beards and the cars and the girls and the different guitars, but I'm not at all caught up in the image thing.

In Camden, it's just the atmosphere that gets me. It's simple. It's nice. It's real. And it's the people, too. I like to interact with them because they are normal and I am normal. People probably don't expect an Arsenal player to come to Camden Lock and, basically, be a normal guy.

I'm still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood - just regular.

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

I'm just me. Just Kyle from Sheffield. That's all I see myself as.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

I don't see myself as anything special. I'm just Johnny Gargano. I always have been, no matter what I'm about to do or where I am.

I was trying to be so perfect and so cookie-cutter because everyone's like, 'Aim for that Disney audience! Be perfect! Don't say anything wrong!' And it's just working out better for me just being me.

I grew up around a bunch of rappers and street dudes and they were always like: 'yo! She's a little different but she's her.' They respected it because you know it wasn't forced, I wasn't posing to be something I wasn't.

I dress differently, I don't conform to what golf is supposed to be.

You can be normal if you choose to be.

I'm not just cookie-cutter. You always see something different.

I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

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

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn't weird enough, that I wasn't standing out enough. Wearing things to get people's attention - I didn't want to do any of that. I didn't want to compromise myself.

Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.

Be yourself, be an individual - people are scared to be themselves.

I don't want to be liked by everyone.

Man, I'm just going to be myself. I shouldn't have to apologize for that. If people don't understand that, then they don't understand it. I'm not going to try to be somebody I'm not.