It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it's kind of like it's all the odd kids. It's all the kids that don't fit in at their regular schools, because you're into something and excited about something that other kids really aren't into. When you go to art school, everybody's kind of on the same page.
What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.
All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.
The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.
They [my sons] all went to different schools and all did different things. They're about as different for five kids as you'll ever see. They don't do anything the same.
Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.
Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.
My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.
It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what's cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something - out-of-the-norm stuff.
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
I think that there's the Kim Kardashian brand and the Kardashian brand. I think they blend together, but I have different qualities or interests that my sisters might not be so into.
When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever.
I'm a history nerd. Actually acting's the best job for somebody who loves weird, different stuff.
I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.
What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.
Whenever people call me the first female this or that, it doesn't make it more special because no one in front of me wanted the same job. I've always wanted weird stuff and enjoyed things differently than other girls.
