Harry Shearer Quotes

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I am not trying to chase what other people are doing.

I want to be sure I'm being myself. I don't want to follow something because someone's like 'do this, it's popular.'

I was probably the only kid in school that had long hair.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

People want you to be ordinary.

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 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 grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

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

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.