Billy West Quotes

Express who you are in a world where everyone is the same.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

It's boring to be like everybody.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

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.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

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

I didn't want to do something typical.

I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

They're never gonna not put you in a box. It's something that they have to do, because nine times out of 10 people don't understand creativity.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah. You've got to be different.

When I was growing up, you had to conform and do the same thing that everyone else was doing. I would just go home and make music and be able to make myself happy, but I know that's more of a challenge for some people.

What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.