Jason Wu Quotes

You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.

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

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

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.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.

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

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

I invented myself.

Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don't let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.

What I am trying to do is create a space for people to explore what they want to be, as opposed to fit into a label that they have been given.

Be whatever you want to be.

More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.

I love being my mother's daughter, and it's something I always will be, but now I get to be just Billie.

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

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.