Katherine Ryan Quotes

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

I've always liked the idea of being different.

There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory.

I've always been different.

I enjoy being different.

I always wanted to be different. If it was different I liked it. And it wasn't because I was just trying so hard to be different, it's just by nature.

I know I'm different and I don't fit in to any kind of generic mould.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

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

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.