Ashanti Quotes

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've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'

The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.

I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it.

I don't limit myself.

I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.