Molly Ivins Quotes

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.

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

You just never know when today's cultural outcasts will become tomorrow's cultural icons.

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

Dweebs are the new chic.

I think everyone in their life has some point on their life wanted to be like everybody else or wanted to be like the captain of the football team.

The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.

Listen, everybody thinks I'm a Republican, but I'm not a Republican.