Lee Ryan Quotes

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

Don't let other people decide who you are.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

I am weird.

I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.