Peter De Vries Quotes

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong.

To be an artist that is fully original, it doesn't exist.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

There were a lot of teen stars that were very cookie-cutter... I'm just being me.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

Be yourself. Embrace your quirks.

Ain't nothing like the real thing.

The best thing you can do to set yourself apart is just be yourself. If you're fake, you know people find out who you are later, it's like, 'Well that's not who we thought you were.' Being yourself is where you feel most comfortable and people get, you know, they feel that connection the best. That's the best way to go. You always have to be yourself.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

What makes you different, makes you dangerous.

Sing songs that none have sung

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.

No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.