Boyd Holbrook Quotes

It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.

Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target.

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

I came from the NFL, so people didn't like that, or they just try to make assumptions, and I think when you assume, you look stupid.

I can never celebrate a success in my career without it being picked apart because of my size or 'my health.'

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

No one is going to look at the good things you do. Everybody is going to watch the bad things and that is how it is.

Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say to them: Get your slander straight. You are what you are, whether you're small or skinny or smart or dumb. Just do what you do.

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

Sometimes when I pose for pictures, people say it's impossible that I have a flat stomach without working out like crazy and having a personal trainer, and sometimes they get mad at me, and I find that hard because I think there's a lot of women who have the same thing happening to them because they lived a healthy, active lifestyle.

I don't care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like 'White Hope.' What about other guys like Tex Cobb - they never had those labels?

When I joined films in 2002, there were all kinds of rash and unkind comments that were made about my looks in the reviews.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything.

I don't think the guys I played with have ever had a problem with me. People can make up what they want to think.

It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.

I wasn't just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as 'the fat, ugly one'.

Coming into the league, everyone said I was going to be fat, I was the next Oliver Miller. I had all these red flags. I just feel I was never given a fair chance coming in.

The song 'Conceited' on 'There's Something About Remy' was inspired by people always telling me that I'm so much prettier in person or that I've lost so much weight since they saw me on TV. I don't even know if that's a compliment. Were you watching me on TV thinking I was ugly?

If I looked like a Victoria's Secret model, I would still get nasty comments.

Acting was not for me. They were saying, you are too beautiful, you are too ugly, you are too plump, too tall, too short. You cannot believe the way you are judged.

Imagine just wanting to share photos of my kid and instead being told I'm unfit to be his mom because of my size.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.