Jonathan Groff Quotes

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

Growing up, I've always made a point to not be placed in a box.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

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

Don't classify me, read me.

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

I've never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I've never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn't mean I'm going to step inside them.

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

I have this original style that I want to show to the world. I don't want to be kind of this beat down, bruise-you-up kind of dude and have Karl Anderson cut all my promos for me. I don't want to have to do that.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

This is not me, WWE doesn't define who Ashley is.

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place, but unfortunately it doesn't always happen.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

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

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.