Tana Mongeau Quotes

Labels are for cans, not people.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

How dull it is to have people defining you.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

Everyone in the world, regardless if they're Muslim or not, does not have to adhere to the label society slaps on you.

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

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

People don't really think other people are the same.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

Once you label me you negate me.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I've been labeled all my life.

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

I hate to be categorized.

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.