K. D. Lang Quotes

I love doing things that people don't expect.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

I wanted to be a dramatic actor. I never realized I was funny until I was 20-something.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

I'm going to do whatever I want as long as it's country. I mean, I'm not much on naysayers, so I'll just do whatever. If I like it, I'll do it.

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

Choosing an unconventional career path - I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it.

I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

My career has been far from cliched. I have always done unconventional roles and I am proud of all of them.

People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.

I followed my dreams and went to Hollywood. My mom was like, 'Wait a minute - I thought you were going to be a lawyer.' I said, 'You know what, Mom? You're going to have to see me play one on TV.'

I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

I love being unconventional because that's the reason I stand out.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

My mum is a rock star, and I idolise her. She was born in a conservative Muslim family, where the girls were not educated much, and she was required to wear a burkha. She felt repressed but dreamt of driving her own car, walking around in jeans and wearing sunglasses, and she did.

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

I think my dad's rebellion is that he's super accepting - I mean, he, like, encouraged me to drop out of university. And to do acting.

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

I am Nia - I have certain traits of my own, and I won't mind telling people that I am a short tempered, immature, silly, normal girl who does mistakes very unlike the sanskari bahu on screen.

I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.