Myron Rolle Quotes

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

The image is never created by you. It's created by the media, by the people around you. In my real-life self, I would be without make up and in jeans and a T-shirt. But when I'm outside, I'm dressed up. It's not because I enjoy doing it.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

A lot of people have already labeled me the Savior.

I don't want to be considered a leader based on what people think goes on in the clubhouse.

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from.

The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.'