Quotes About Labels

I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.'

People have referred to me as 'innocent', which makes me feel disingenuous.

I'm very hesitant to call somebody a racist, a sexist.

Turns out, all mean same: Bastard = individual standing across from us. Turd = individual standing across from us. Creep = individual standing across from us. Idiot = individual standing across from us.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

Having been labelled at school and in the workplace as 'sassy,' 'feisty,' 'aggressive,' 'hard' and 'dramatic,' I started to believe these stereotypes. I self-stereotyped and became sure I would eventually become 'too much' for whoever I was with.

My music is more than me writing a flashy soul song. They're heartfelt songs about my family and true stories. I have also songs that aren't personal, but just painting a picture. I don't like being put under labels, but my music is going to continue to stay classic and timeless forever.

I'm tired of labels. This is my label right here: El Cucuy.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

You don't want to be defined by one thing. But at the same point... When you are the first in something, that's gonna kinda be the title that sticks. And after Sochi, I was, like, the dog guy. Now I'm the gay guy, and it's fine by me.

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

I really hate having to put 'female' in front of any title, because it puts us in some kind of weird category for handicapped people or something.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Titles are sometimes overrated.

I don't actually feel multi-talented. I just feel that I'm in this business where we give ourselves 100 titles and gold statues. It's like, lawyers aren't like, 'You're incredible! You're a professional arguer in front of the judge! You're great at paperwork!' No, you just get credit for one job.

I don't like nicknames, to be honest.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

Do you have a name?" asked Jean. "Lots. All of them lovely and none of them true," she replied.

It seems like we live and die by the names we are given, and we harm or heal by the names we give.

I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

Names are not always what they seem.

Call someone 'a schizophrenic' or 'a borderline' [and it] lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

No one is really who people think they are. It's unfair. When they give us nicknames and create a story for us, everyone expects us to be that person and to live up to that legend.

En España, la movilidad es muy difícil: te marcan de por vida en la casilla que creen que te corresponde.