Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.

I think there's something special and timeless about girls getting ready together.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

Men are herd animals, and prefer to go with the flow, especially when moving in the other direction is harsh.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

Community ends with coercion; it doesn't begin there.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

I don't know who came up with this idea that it's cool to hate on other girls, 'cause it's not.

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.

In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I'm still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

Everyone is friends with each other, and you have to like what's hot. You have to do all these things as if there's no real feelings. As if you can't dislike something any more. We all just have to be buddy-buddy.

Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.