Rajkummar Rao Quotes

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 love being unconventional because that's the reason I stand out.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

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.

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

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.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

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

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

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.

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'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

If you want to be different, do something different.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.