Brit Marling Quotes

People are always put in a box or slot.

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

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

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.'

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

How dull it is to have people defining you.

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

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.

That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.

We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

I don't like being put into a category.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

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

Sometimes America is so great because it brings all of us together, but sometimes it can be so limiting because it puts labels on things.