Rachel Hurd-Wood Quotes

It's hard when you look a certain way. I look All-American, sweet, girl-next-door, so naturally those are the parts that are going to land on my doorstep.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I had to tell people I was not born with a scarf because I came out Iran. People think you came out of your mother with a scarf; they can't imagine that the scarf is not stuck to your head.

I became stereotyped.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

All labels are offensive in some way.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.

I do find it slightly offensive that everyone thinks that every New Zealander starred in either 'Lord of the Rings' or 'The Hobbit.'

I've always had far too much emotion to be Scottish.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

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