Chris Colfer Quotes

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

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

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

People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

People did pigeonhole me.

Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.

I've now made enough movies that I understand that people love to put things in a box.

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

I don't like to be pigeon-holed.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

We are all people... don't label me as an LGBT rapper or a female rapper... I don't like to be labeled.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?