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I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

I find 'Edward Scissorhands' a very inspiring movie - it's one of the first movies about bullying, in a way - about being treated unkindly for being different.

I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.

One thing I have figured out: People don't like different. People don't like to see anything different. When you see something different, you are either scared or afraid or you feel threatened. And I feel that the way I play the game, it feels like I should have played 50 years ago. But it's what I do.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

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'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

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

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.