Deep Roy Quotes

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.

If you put little person wrestler on a poster, people are going to say oh is that kids? Is that weird, odd people? You put midget wrestling they know what it is.

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.

People label you the way they know you best.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I've been labeled all my life.

People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

When you have a name that means scares, you have to live with that.

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.

I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want to lead with that. I didn't want people to look at me like that's all I am.

Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.