Uta Hagen Quotes

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

I don't work at being ordinary.

Of course I know I am not the average footballer. But I'd be lying if I said I set out to be different, I didn't set out to go against the grain.

I feel like no one plays the game to be normal, average. Or I don't.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

If you do the same as all the rest, you're the same as all the rest: I don't want to be just another player.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

I just don't fit into the box.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

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

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don't believe in 'super-men,' for the world is full of capable men, but it's the fellow with determination that wins out.

Let's embrace being not normal!

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.