Louis Garrel Quotes

When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would be wearing something different. You were constantly trying to catch up with them - which you could never do because, by the time you'd saved up enough to buy the item, they'd moved on to something else. That's the whole Mod thing, I suppose.

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

It's fun conjuring what people will be wearing in the future. We exist in this world today, and yet there are people walking around who still look like they're in the '60s.

Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They don't want to seem like the guy that 'has to call his girlfriend.' It's just boys growing up.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

I was waiting for all other actresses to wear a bikini first so I can just follow the bandwagon.

I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.

When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

Everybody laughs at me because I don't really wear much make-up. I have to be forced and usually people buy make-up for me because they're like, this is ridiculous.

I'm a normal lad, and if that changes, my family and friends will kick me straight back down, so it definitely won't be changing.

Honey, I've watched a lot of 90210. The parents weren't even on the show once Brandon and Brenda went to college. This is your time - you're supposed to going to frat parties and getting back together with Dylan." "Why does everybody want me to go to frat parties?" "Who wants you to go to frat parties? I was just kidding. Don't hang out with frat guys, Cath, they're terrible. All they do is get drunk and watch 90210.

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

Girls have to fight against a lot of the same stuff we did growing up... peer pressure, exploitation, etc. But what worries me the most is this trend that caring about something isn't cool. That it's better to comment on something than to commit to it. That it's so much cooler to be unmotivated and indifferent.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.