Marlon Wayans Quotes

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

A lot of people get pigeonholed because it makes it easier to understand them - or assume you understand them. I think the way you break away from that is by constantly doing different jobs.

I don't categorise cinema at all. If I am doing this, that means I am limiting myself.

The idea is to resist being typecast. I like doing different things.

You don't have to be just one thing. I think that applies to women in front of and behind the camera.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Why should I have to say bye to one thing to do another? I can do lots of things at one time, and as much as I love to do films, I'd love to do ads as well!

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.