Conformity quotes

“Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve.”
Kumail Nanjiani

“Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.”
Ethan Embry

“I don't act that way to change the world. I act that way so that the goddamn world won't change me!”
Patricia Charbonneau - Cay Rivvers

“- Alexander: We've never had a golf-playing maid before.
- Miss Marple: You may have heard that this is the Age of the Common Woman.”
Ronnie Raymond - Alexander
Margaret Rutherford - Miss Maple

“Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.”
Justin Theroux

“Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path; then, by all means, you should follow that path.”
Ellen Lee DeGeneres

“A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.”
Loretta Young

“My point is that you have to think for yourself. If your parents told you that chocolate was dangerous would you take their word for it? So perhaps instead of acting like sheep when it comes to cigarettes you should find out for yourself.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“You know what? I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm gonna tell you the real reason I'm having my lunch with you today. You see, I don't really have any friends, at the moment, and, to be completely honest with you, I'm not interested. At all. My entire generation is a bunch of mouth breathers. They literally have a seizure if you take their phone away...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“I've always been proud of the way nature singled me out. It's the people who have been deformed by society I feel sorry for.”
Uma Thurman - Sissy Hankshaw

“I want to feel my life. I want to stop agreeing to things, I don't really want.”
Holly Hunter - Judith Moore

“- Princesse de Lamballe: I would have told him exactly what to do with it.
- Duchesse de Polignac: What's that, darling?
- Princesse de Lamballe: Put it back in his trousers where it belongs.
- Duchesse de Polignac: Lamballe, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a prude.”
Mary Nighy - Princesse de Lamballe
Rose Byrne - Duchesse de Polignac

“The mainstream is generally garbage.”
Steven Berkoff

“I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.”
Elijah Wood

“When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.”
Michel Gondry

“My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.”
Harold Ramis

“Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.”
Edward Norton - Alan Isaacman

“We could be pets, we could be food, but all we really are is livestock.”
John Lawrence - Bearded Man

“Nothing so deadens a man as ignorant numbness and conformity! Grasp the nettle!”
Bill Paterson - Henry Salt

“What a bunch of losers. Mindless zombies capitulating to an oppressive system.”

Woody Allen - Z

“I'm an expert in rejection, and I can see it on your faces, and it's too bad that you judge us by the way we look and not by who we are, just because you want us to be more like them when the truth is we're not like them, and I am damn proud of that fact!”
Justin Long - Bartleby Gaines

- Ripley: Whenever he says "anything" you say "right", Brett. You know that?
- Brett: Right.
- Ripley: Parker, what do you think? Your staff just follows you around and says "right". Just like a regular parrot.
- Parker: Shape up. What are you, some kind of parrot?
- Brett: Right.
Sigourney Weaver - Ripley (Alien)
Harry Dean Stanton - Brett
Yaphet Kotto - Parker

“You gave me courage, Lola. Because of you I'm brave enough to be different.”
Alison Pill - Ella

“Isn't there a law against these guys all being in the same state?”
Lee Majors - Mike Catton

“You've got nothing, absolutely nothing. No brains, no power, no future, no hope, no God. The only thing you believe in is me. What are you if you don't have me. I'm not afraid see. I come in here every night, I make my case, I make my point, I say what I believe in. I tell you what you are, I have to, I have no choice! You frighten me! I come in...” (continue)(continue reading)

Eric Bogosian - Barry