Poonam Dhillon Quotes

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

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

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

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.

People like to pigeonhole you.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'

Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

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.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

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

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

To think that everybody's like you is silly.

Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

You should never assume about someone.

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.