Quotes About Individuality

The cool thing about being different in this industry is that you get different roles; you aren't pigeonholed the same way.

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

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

You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

Because I feel like I can do so many different things, and people like my music for different reasons, I don't feel pigeonholed. I think people are always going to appreciate whatever direction I take.

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

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.

I love people who have really long locs. I love how they can go in different directions or pile it up into a big crown on the head.

I'm an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.

'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

I was never into makeup when I was younger, and I still love not piling on the makeup every day, but as I've gotten older I've actually found makeup to be fun.

Everyone has seen the serious side of myself and sometimes I need to take a chill pill and have a good laugh. That's who I am as a person.

I was 16 years old at the Supervalu Store in Chaska, Minnesota, working as a bag boy, and with one of my checks I went out and bought a $70 pillow in 1977. Who does that as a teenager?

When we were kids, we couldn't wait to have our own rooms, not to have to share anymore. And that is what I love about having my own bedroom. It is mine. My sleep is mine. Both pillows are mine. If I wake up, it is me who has woken me up... It makes me feel like a grown-up. I love it.

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

I think the fact that I've always been left or right of mainstream cowboy hats and boots has made me hard to pin down.

People try to turn you into something if they can't pin you down.

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

I'm no pin-up.