Individuality quotes

“Imperfection is the key. Imperfections make us individuals, that's what makes us unique.”
Oliver Platt - Rupert Burns

“No man can walk out of his own story.”

Timothy Olyphant - Spirit of the West

I call this "the agentic state". The individual yields to authority, and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions.

Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“Who am I? I could be anyone.”
Johnny Depp - Rango

“- Erik: My stage name is Erik O. Jones after Oprah. She is my idol.
- Eva: Eva Rodriquez, after no one.
- Erik: Oh, an individual. I like it.”
Shakiem Evans - Erik
Zoe Saldana - Eva

“You carry on the way you're going, you're going to wind up one seriously fucked up individual.”

Bob Hoskins - Bill Nelson

“Look for what is special about each individual, focus on that.”
David Thewlis - Michael Stone

“There was a time when men and women could give a fully human response to any situation. When we could be fully absorbed in the world as human beings. But more often, now, people don't get to see the whole situation but only some small part of it.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“Only uniqueness is success.”
Gordon Pinsent - Grant Anderson

“Our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.”
Alan Rudolph

“Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.”
Alan Rudolph

“Who am I? I'm nobody.”
Johnny Depp - Rango

“What you want to be eventually, that you must be every day; and
by and by the quality of your deeds will get down into your soul.”
Frank Crane

“I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.”
Candice Bergen

“- Idiot Punk: You look like a clown in that stupid jacket.
- Sailor Ripley: This is a snakeskin jacket! And for me it's a symbol of my individuality, and my belief... in personal freedom.”
Brent David Fraser - Idiot Punk
Nicolas Cage - Sailor Ripley

“- Carla: Everything here is by the book.
- Kelly: Thanks for the warning, but I would really like to try and retain my individuality around here.”
Andrea Lewis - Carla
Hilary Duff - Kelly

“- Brian Cohen: No, no. Please, please please listen. I've got one or two things to say.
- The Crowd: Tell us! Tell us both of them!
- Brian Cohen: Look, you've got it all wrong. You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals!”
Graham Arthur Chapman - Brian Cohen

“- Sailor Ripley: Did I ever tell ya that this here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom?
- Lula Fortune: About fifty thousand times.”
Nicolas Cage - Sailor Ripley
Laura Dern - Lula Fortune