Wentworth Miller Quotes

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

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

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

Whether it’s your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living—don’t let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

Don't let other people decide who you are.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.

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

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 never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

Once you label me you negate me.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.