Caroline Buchanan Quotes

It's so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

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.

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.

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

For me, in my auditioning career and my professional life, since I am kind of a big person and since I have a big personality, I often find myself trying to squeeze myself into boxes that are really too small for me, and it ends up not working out.

When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

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 know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I no longer limit myself.

There's not a blueprint for me to follow.

I don't limit myself.

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 certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

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.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

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

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become. . . . You and I can't even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.