Adrienne Bailon Quotes

For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

Autism is part of who I am.

You can’t have people make you what you are not. You can have advisers and political consultants, but at the end of the day, you are who you are.

We all want our children to be the best they can be; and one of the blessings of having an autistic child is that you notice every little achievement, and it becomes cause for celebration.

I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

Everybody is their own person.

I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it's O.K. to be different.

I am my own person with my own experiences, personality, and definition of success.

Of course, I can't be like Gary Hooper or anyone else because I'm me.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I don't want to be like anyone else or do what someone else did. I want to be like me and do what's best for me. I can't go do stuff Cardi B did - that may not work for me.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

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 think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I also think that we very consciously decided not to hold back that part of ourselves, but to be very vocal about who we are, kind of what experiences we've had in life, and how we identify.

Every kid is going to be his or her own individual, they all have their own style of doing things.