Philip Johnson Quotes

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

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

Different is good. Different is great!

Being different gives the world color.

I love things which are different and shows which are different.

Being different is critical.

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

Everyone's going to like something that's different.

I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions.

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

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 always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

I just like to do different parts.

Every song is different.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

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

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.

Every time, I try to make something different.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

Well, I've always been eclectic.

I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.