Scarlett Thomas Quotes

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

I became stereotyped.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

Labels are for cans, not people.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

I don't like the fact that people are put into boxes based on what we look like and what we have to wear. Categories are meant for cookies, you know? Not for humans. And so the fact that I've been able to be successful and do it in a way that's very outside the box, I hope that that makes women feel like they can be beautiful in an authentic way.

I hate labels.

Stereotypes are so played out.

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

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 don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.