Quotes About Individuality

It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.

I love breaking stereotypes.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

Stereotypes start somewhere. There's different sides to all of us.

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual.

I feel I'm really glad I don't look like the celebrities out there who are beautiful, because there are a lot of stereotypes attached to that.

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

I think there's a stereotype of what a biker is, and I think that's one of the reasons people are shocked when they find out that I ride. I've been trying to break down the stereotypes and inspire new riders.

I guess I blow all the stereotypes right out of the water.