Labeling Bias Quotes

Once you label me you negate me.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

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

Any genre as it's called, I think can be quite reductive in terms of what a film is, because I think there is an eagerness to put in any film, in anybody's work, to give it a genre title and I think as a consequence of that, the film starts to obey the rules of the genre.

You don't have to label yourself, because it's not set in stone. It's so fluid, and there's so much pressure on kids to label themselves and say, 'This is what I am; this is what I like.'

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

People who are labeled as disrespectful do not get the same opportunities afforded to those who are labeled as respectful.

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

I hate being put in a box labelled 'tropical house.'

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.

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.

A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.