Vivek Oberoi Quotes

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

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

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

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.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

Society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that's going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that.

I don't feel like I've ever fit into a specific mold ever since I was very young. That's what so cool about YouTube is that you can do whatever you want.

I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.

Oh, I don't like labels.

I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of my life.

To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And 'Drag Race' is about doing what you're told and having it evaluated. I hate being judged.

I have had a wide range of projects to choose from. That has saved me from donning a stereotypical image.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.