Christine Quinn Quotes

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

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.

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

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

People label you the way they know you best.

When other people say, 'Oh you're so-and-so's friend, brother, or husband,' it's reductive to the point of being white noise.

I think that people need a box to put people in to feel okay, but I'm just not like that.

There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one.

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

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

Once you label me you negate me.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

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've been labeled all my life.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

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.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.