Angelina Jolie Quotes

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

I just don't fit into the box.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

I like being unconventional.

Without trying, I'm different.

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.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

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

So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.

Of course I know I am not the average footballer. But I'd be lying if I said I set out to be different, I didn't set out to go against the grain.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

I feel like no one plays the game to be normal, average. Or I don't.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

Never follow the crowd.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.