Being Pigeonholed Quotes

#1. I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I've always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else.

Colleen Atwood

#2. There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

Matthew Perry

#3. I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

John Lydon

#4. As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

Kathryn Hahn

#5. If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

Adhir Kalyan

#6. The lesson that I'm learning is that I've got to be careful of being pigeonholed because people can take a piece of tape and edit out the first half and only pull out one snippet that could start a firestorm.

Herman Cain

#7. Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

Jack Nicholson

#8. For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.

John Krasinski

#9. I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

Boyle Roche

#10. I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.

Kathleen Edwards

#11. Your inner voice is your signboard, follow it

Anamika Mishra

#12. Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?"
"Plenty of time," he said softly.
"Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?"
"Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.

Maya Banks

#13. You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

Michael Bloomberg

#14. I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

Fairuza Balk

#15. All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

Nate Silver

#16. The light within my soul is sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Words affect the mind in a pronounced way. Whether they are spoken or written, they are powerful influences.

Robin S. Sharma

#18. True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

John Shelby Spong

#19. Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a story being set up for you. You have to use your imagination to get the best out of the songs - if you choose to do that.

Linda Perry

#20. There is no such thing as a standard, run-of-the-mill, human being.

Stephen Hawking

#21. Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.
Sonea: I love you too.

Trudi Canavan

#22. The Reverence of God is grace to act right.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

John W. Gardner

#24. I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

Stacy Keach

#25. In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.

Alex Shoumatoff

#26. I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

Ginger Rogers

#27. Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Karen Marie Moning