Nick Offerman Quotes

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

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I don't care much about conforming.

I don't want to follow the herd.

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

I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.

I just don't conform very well.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

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

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

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

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.