Emily Blunt Quotes

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

He who integrates is lost.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.