Chamillionaire Quotes

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

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

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

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.'

You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

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.

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.

You judge people as you meet them.

You should never assume about someone.

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

Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.