Quotes About Stereotypes

Why does everyone need to have a label?

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

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.

When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.

I've run into people who say, 'I know what you're like: You're a Boston guy.' That's so weird. This person who doesn't know anything about me thinks they know a lot because of the city I grew up in, which, to me, is a meaningless label. There are all kinds of people from Boston.

I have never gotten into the label thing.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

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

As an Asian immigrant coming in, for the longest time I still had problems getting in the lot because they're just not used to seeing someone like me who's directing these films. I do think ultimately there's a point where we can kind of just shed that label and become filmmakers.

Don't label me before we get a chance to talk about it. Talk to me first and see what kind of person I am. That's what I like to tell the media: Come talk to me, let's sit down and talk about what's really going on.

I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor.

People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn't have friends who are gay and lesbian, so that can't be true.

Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood and into your adulthood that is not necessarily who you are.

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

Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.

Labels are for cans, not people.

My dad never liked labels, and neither do I.

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

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

I dislike labels like 'commercial' and 'non commercial.'