Quotes About Identity

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

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.

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

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

If I'm pigeonholed, it's that people think I play sweet-natured ne'er-do-wells. There are worse fates than that in Hollywood.

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.

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

Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline of old racism, but we are witnessing a new kind of racialising.

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.

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

I am a pile of reworked flaws weaved into a semi-functioning man.

'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.

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 just want a home anywhere. I want my own home and my own pillow!

I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.

Being in a male-dominated career field as a combat pilot, I got used to kind of blocking out the lies in the attacks that people would levy against me and trying to tell me who I am and define who I am when I know what I'm fighting for.