Anna Paquin Quotes

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.

Where's your will to be weird?

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

I never wanted to work a 9 to 5. I was always a different kid in class.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.

A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.