John Barrowman Quotes

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

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

I've been labeled all my life.

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

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

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

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

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

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

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

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

I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment that make me cringe and sick to my stomach about how the world really sees me and they're right.

My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."

People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.

I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don't really have some sort of other lifestyle.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

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.