Harry Hamlin Quotes

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.

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.

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

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

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

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

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

A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.

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

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."

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

For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

People label you the way they know you best.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.