Defying Convention Quotes

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been accomplished?

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.

I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

I like being unconventional.

I stand up for what is right even if it puts me in a political conundrum. Supporting Senator Sanders was one of those moments when the status quo said 'Uh uh, bad girl.'

I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.

It’s not the mainstream. It’s just the status quo.