Dianne Wiest Quotes

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

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

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

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

I've always wanted to do things different, always wanted to be the person who stands out from the pack.

I think people are afraid to be original.

I feel like I wanted to run differently than everybody else did. And I want to do things that everybody else hasn't done.

I always aspired to do something different.

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah. You've got to be different.

With technology, everything is available at the touch of a button. But I'm not someone whose world revolves around trends. I like to be unique in whatever I do.

I have to be ahead of myself so I don't just fit into the realm of everybody who sounds like me.

You have to be unique.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.