Nahnatchka Khan Quotes

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.

I don't want to be easily defined.

I've never been the type of person to put myself in a box.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.

We're moving away from the one-dimensional nature for women. It used to be that you were known for one thing - a cultural thing, the way you walk, talk or look. Now everybody is allowed to be a layer cake.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.

Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.

No one is any one thing.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

There are some people who fit into categories very well. But then there are a lot who don't.

I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.

I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven't tried to uncomplicate myself. I've sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don't know if it's working all the time, but I'd rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another.

I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

I tried to make people see that I'm not someone to be put in a box. I can do it all.

I do my own thing, and a lot of people don't. I just move my own way.

Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they're not just one thing, they're bigger than just their identity.

I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.

I dance to the beat of a different drummer.