Embracing Difference Quotes

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.

If you're weird, it's good to be weird.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

Why try to fit in when you a stand out?

I think that Diwata does not fit that mold. She's loud, she's a huge personality, she's imposing. I don't know if I'm the same thing in that sense, but what gives me the joy in playing her is the total rejection of needing to fit in. It's so inspiring.

As a kid, I was a little self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone. A bad habit of mine used to be slouching. Eventually, I realized my height was something I couldn't control, so I might as well accept it. I've certainly turned it into a positive, because without my height I probably wouldn't be as good of a tennis player. It's a gift, and I've made something of it.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

Being biracial is so much a part of who I am that it's almost, 'Let it go already.' It's intrinsic to me. I think a lot of my fans relate to me because they felt different.

I'm okay with being the oddball.

I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.

It's Wierd not to be Wierd.

Just because you're not like other people doesn't mean that you're bad. It means that you're different, and that's great.

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

I don't shy away from things that may be a little different, but own them and implement them in the coverage that I do.

Portraying this character [Diwata] has really given me an opportunity to get in touch with that side of myself, which I haven't been for a few years. And I do know what it's like to be different from people around you and not fit into the prototypical mold of what America sort of thinks a girl "should be."