Quotes About Individuality

You can be layered and more than one thing - you can exist outside of the box.

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.

I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

I don't fit neatly into anybody's political boxes, and I think that sometimes disturbs people. But I don't think most Alaskans fit neatly into the Republican box or the Democratic box. They don't think of themselves that way.

If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.

Boxing's a very lonely sport. That ring is the loneliest place in the world.

I'm not Blockbuster Boy.

I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.

I don't want to be a pretty boy.

I'm not a rude boy; I'm my own thing.

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time.

I don't talk about my boyfriend because it's boring.

I don't want a boyfriend. I want a friend with whom I can be myself.

Krushna is my boyfriend but my life doesn't begin and end with him and neither does his professional career begin and end with me.

Kids are different. Boys and girls at 14, 15, 16 - some are more developed in the mind; some aren't... It comes down to the individual.

I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.