Greer Garson Quotes

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

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

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

I don't like labels.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

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.

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

I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

I hate labels.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

I think that it is mad that everything always has to have a label - whether it be the clothes by designers, or whether you are in a relationship or not. Everybody always wants to have that label when it is not always necessary.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

Why does everyone need to have a label?

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.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.