Top 86 Pigeonhole Quotes & Sayings

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.

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

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

People did pigeonhole me.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

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.

People don't seem to be able to pigeonhole me yet, which is great.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.

I love the true life stories and the biopics - people say I'm pigeonholed, but it's a fantastic kind of pigeonhole - but it's tough to then go and direct it because I know all the real people.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.

People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

I don't want people to pigeonhole me.

You don't pigeonhole yourself, people pigeonhole you. If the world is not at a place yet where it can just be like, "This music is gay and it's music," then it's not my fault that it gets pigeonholed, it's not the people in the band's fault, it's because people won't just let music be music, people who need to put a name on something or to critique something.

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

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

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

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.

Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!

I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

When I started out rapping, I became very frightened by the idea that people were trying to pigeonhole me. That's usually what happens to most female rappers. They fit in a box and there's a prototype or person they're compared to.

Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.

Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of listeners, which is great, but on the other hand they start to pigeonhole you a little bit.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

People like to pigeonhole you.

The industry loves to pigeonhole.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

People always try to pigeonhole you, especially the media, who are happy if they can label you as a particular kind of artist. But the spectrum of songs I write and record is vast.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

Producers have a tendency to put you in a pigeonhole: 'What does this white, middle-aged preppy know about 1960s Kingston?'

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

When it comes to the liberal agenda, it's more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.

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

I never tried to pigeonhole myself. I've been willing to take risks and try doing things like reality TV with 'The Bachelor' or Food Network or 'Good Morning America.'

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

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.