Rick Moody Quotes

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.

I don't like being put into a category.

They always like to put labels on me.

I think that it is mad that everything always has to have a label - whether it be the clothes by designers, or whether you are in a relationship or not. Everybody always wants to have that label when it is not always necessary.

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

If you do an item song, then you're categorized as an item girl; if you focus on acting, you're categorized as an actor.

I hate being categorized.

The easiest thing to do is put someone in a file of somebody you already know. 'Hey, you remind me of Sam Kinison' or 'You remind me of Richard Pryor.' That's fine, because I know that's the process. Eventually, my own file will be created.

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.

It's a blessing and a curse at the same time, the idea of genre.

Why does everyone need to have a label?

Genres are just names.

It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy.

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.'

I am an actor. It's very unfair when people categorise and term me as a television actor or film actor.

I don't want to be put in a category.

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

People love to put human beings or actors in boxes.

People are always put in a box or slot.

People keep trying to say I'm one type of artist and I'm just not.

Often times, if you're a bit of a crossover artist, audiences see you as only one thing.

When I started in comics, people were always trying to classify me as either/or. Either a writer who appealed to women or a writer who appealed to guys. This need to categorize was just exhausting.

I hate genres. I think they're just marketing labels.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.