A Quote by Chuka Umunna

I don't like being pigeon-holed. — © Chuka Umunna
I don't like being pigeon-holed.

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If you're going to be pigeon-holed as anything as a woman, it's good to be pigeon-holed as someone with an acid tongue who gets things done.
We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.
I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
I don't like to be pigeon-holed.
I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.
I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.
I don't want to be pigeon-holed as a firefighter.
I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.
You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry.
People talk about me being a firefighter, but I have also been very successful. It annoys me that in this country you get pigeon-holed for certain things.
We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.
No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.
I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.
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