Andrew Stanton Quotes

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

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.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

You can only write your own vision.

Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

It's funny: I rarely reference anything, and I'm one of those people that doesn't really spend much time in other people's worlds. I just try and create my own and make it as distinctive as I can.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Write about what makes you different.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.