George Burns Quotes

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

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

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird... 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so... if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

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.

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.

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

Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.

To be very blunt, I am not really that concerned with what labels get associated with somebody.

I think that people are going to think of me however they want to think of me, whether it's female or gay or cancer or funny or unfunny.

You can ask me about my beliefs on things; that's cool. But I think to lump in and say, You follow this person, so then, wow, who are you?' Ask me who I am.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

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

A lot of people are comfortable labelling you because it's easy. Like, 'He's a rapper. He can only do this. He can only do these types of shows.' I want to do everything. I want to feel comfortable being me.

You could fly under the radar a little bit. You could be a weird kid without defaulting to gay, without everyone assuming you must be gay - that was literally the last place many people went.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.