Jason Priestley Quotes

If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird... 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so... if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

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

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

To be very blunt, I am not really that concerned with what labels get associated with somebody.

I am what I am.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

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

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)

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 always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

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

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.