Tricia Helfer 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.

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.

I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.

It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.

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

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

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.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

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

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

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

I hate labels.

I don't want to have any category stamped on my face.

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

People tell me what to do every single day. They think I'm boring. I'm Disney kid. So, there's that.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

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.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

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

Labels are for cans, not people.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.