Quotes About Perception

I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way. I'd get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about; this industry is known for the flounciness, but I've got my feet on the ground.

I am lighter than Paul Pierce.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig.

I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

I once read that I had six kids and was a pig farmer. That's not entirely accurate.

It's actually sexist to accuse men as a whole of something, you know? It's just - I don't know. A guy can't even open a door for a lady without being called a pig.

I get 100 e-mails a day from Americans who say, 'What you're doing is cool - can we work for you?' From Germans, I also get 100 e-mails a day, saying, 'You fat pig!' or 'You're a liar and a criminal!' I'm trying to change this.

I think we try to categorise people, put them in pigeon holes, I think we get into all sorts of difficulties.

People try to pigeonhole comics by saying they're just for kids. So is The Odyssey. So is the Labors of Hercules, the story of Fa Mulan. The advantage of those stories over the contemporary ones is that they've had 2,000 years of editing. All the crap has been weeded out over time.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

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 got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

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

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.

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

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.

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.

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.

I started doing Pilates when I was in my mid-40s. I thought it was called 'pie-lattes' because I didn't hear anyone talk about it; I just read about it.

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