B. J. Armstrong Quotes

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.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

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

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.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.

We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

People label you the way they know you best.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.

People did pigeonhole me.

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

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

What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

I don't like to be pigeon-holed.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'