Manny Montana Quotes

People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down the street in a kilt, then dudes would wonder why I'm doing that, they'd think I was different or gay. It's natural for people to point fingers. That's my whole reason for trying to switch things up; don't judge a book by it's cover.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.

Conforming is not cool.

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in terms of fashion. You just follow the trends. Whatever is hot at the moment, you want to get it. You basically just want to be doing what everyone else is doing. But as you get older, those things aren't as important.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

Guys want to be cool without appearing to be bothered about trends.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

I want to be sure I'm being myself. I don't want to follow something because someone's like 'do this, it's popular.'

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

I don't mind not being cool.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.