Stanley Kubrick Quotes

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

People want you to be ordinary.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I don't want to change; I just want to be like everyone else. I'm nothing special.

You can be normal if you choose to be.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

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

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.