Taron Egerton Quotes

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

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

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

I don't crave acceptance in the classical world.

I'm not ambitious and I don't need to work for The Man.

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 will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

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

I just don't conform very well.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.

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.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I don't care much about conforming.

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.