Top 51 Pigeonhole Quotes
#2. Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.
Stanley Tucci
#3. When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.
Domhnall Gleeson
#4. I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.
M.I.A.
#5. I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.
Jesse Johnson
#6. You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.
Kevin Hart
#8. People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme.
Katharine Hayhoe
#9. I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.
Jonathan Levine
#10. People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.
Terry McAuliffe
#11. To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
Chester Bennington
#12. As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
Liam Neeson
#13. I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it ... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
M.I.A.
#14. If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.
John Barrowman
#15. God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.
Greg Boyle
#16. There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
Steven Spielberg
#17. People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
Bob Woodward
#19. Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.
Tim McGraw
#21. Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
Lukas Foss
#22. I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.
Jaime Pressly
#23. People don't seem to be able to pigeonhole me yet, which is great.
Anthony Head
#24. I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
Ice Cube
#25. Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
Martin Freeman
#26. Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.
Colm Meaney
#27. People take even greater umbrage when they hear themselves labeled with a common noun. The reason is that a noun predicate appears to pigeonhole the with a stereotype of a category rather than referring to them as an individual who happens to possess a trait.
Steven Pinker
#28. I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
Samira Wiley
#29. Heaven, for the Presbyterians, must resemble a banking establishment, with each soul tagged and docketed, and placed in the appropriate pigeonhole.
Margaret Atwood
#30. I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
Patti Smith
#31. One of the problems with fame ... is they try to pigeonhole you ... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.
Charles A. Reich
#32. People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.
Charlie Day
#33. Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.
Melissa Rosenberg
#34. It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction ... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.
Bradley Nowell
#35. Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#36. Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.
China Mieville
#37. I consider myself an American, not an Asian, not even an Asian-American although people can't get away from the freaking labels that society needs to pigeonhole us." There
Toni Anderson
#38. I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
Bill Forsyth
#39. I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.
David S.Goyer
#40. If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.
Mao Zedong
#41. I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.
Louis L'Amour
#42. Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.
Kevin Sampsell
#43. Everybody tends to pigeonhole things they don't understand," said San Epifanio.
Roberto Bolano
#44. Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!
Matthew Williamson
#45. I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.
Al Yankovic
#46. Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#47. I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
Karen Black
#48. Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.
Anna Quindlen
#49. We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
Dominic Cooper
#50. Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.
George Cukor
#51. People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.
Benjamin Percy
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