Quotes about Originality

I think what people respond to is someone being who they actually are.

I don't like scripts.

Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?' "4 The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself.

For this reason the famous Hasidic story of Rabbi Zusya remains so important for us today: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

The things that make me different are the things that make me ME!

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.