Not Conforming Quotes

I just wanted to be different; I didn't wanna sound like anybody else.

I'm lucky: I always wanted to be an actor. But I never felt the need to be in with the crowd. I didn't mind being on the outside. I was always looking forward or upwards, not in.

I've always looked around and pretty much knew that I was built a little different.

I think it's important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else's look.

I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

I've never been that person to fake it, and say what everyone else wants you to say. Then you never have anything personal. If I wanted to be an actress all the time, I could do that. But I don't. I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

I post less-than-flattering selfies and don't try to change who I am to make people like me. I try to show people that they don't have to be afraid to show their goofy side.

I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.

It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

I don't want them to compare me to one or the other - I want people to know me for being Griezmann.

The last thing you want to do is blend in. You want to stand out, and hopefully in a good way.

You don't want to be a gimmick. You don't want to be a set piece, where people go, 'Hey, that's weird.'