Quotes About Diversity

I look to a lot of artists who don't focus on one medium, who you can't pigeonhole.

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.

We have to be sure we don't pigeonhole one group as though they're not part of the human family, as though there's a different set of rules for them. That would be a big mistake.

That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational.

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.

A lot of people get pigeonholed because it makes it easier to understand them - or assume you understand them. I think the way you break away from that is by constantly doing different jobs.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

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

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

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 think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

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

I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything.

Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role.