Wrestling pushes me, makes me accountable. It makes me who I am. I never felt I was just a normal person. Then I felt too normal, lazy, sedentary.
I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.
Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.
What I wear identifies me as a priest. I don't agree with all this trying to appear 'normal'. If you want that to be normal, don't take off your dog collar and then put it on again, because what you're doing is playing along with the view that wearing one makes you odd.
There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.
What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.
God makes something special and unique about each person that sets them apart from every other person, and to me that's is what artistry is about, whether you are a plumber, a pinter, a musician whatever it is that is unique about you that is translated into your art.
For me, it's my work - I have a job, and that job happens to be with insanely talented actors. At this stage, it's normal to me. But when I meet new people, I realise, 'Oh, yeah, it's actually really strange. I have a very unique hobby.'
I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. This has been normal for me.
If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
The through line of the way I like to work, what makes me different, and what I like to do for every project - although they are completely different from each other - is I like to do a lot of research and create a unique landscape and unique soundscape for each movie.
I have a girlfriend and she really keeps me grounded. Makes me normal.
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?
Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.