Top 145 Pigeonholed Quotes & Sayings

It's important to me to keep testing myself in life so that I don't get pigeonholed.

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

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

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.

R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.

I'm worried about being pigeonholed as an artist, especially a female one, but I think, essentially, it's the music which people judge you by.

I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

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

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

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

I think that's part of the battle of defining yourself as an artist. You're constantly fighting the pressure from outside to be pigeonholed and deliver more of what people already liked.

My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.

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

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

You never want to be pigeonholed into something and have people think, "Oh, that's the guy we call for this particular thing."

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

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

For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

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

When I was younger, you get pigeonholed in parts, which is understandable.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

It's tough advocating for trans visibility and not being pigeonholed as just a trans actress.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

I've always wanted a broad range of options and to not get pigeonholed.

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

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

It was always important for me not to be pigeonholed as a cruiserweight-style wrestler.

I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'

If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

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 think when I got into broadcasting I told myself, 'I don't ever want to be pigeonholed as one thing.'

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

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

I'm aware of being pigeonholed in those period drama roles. But, I do love them at the same time.

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.

I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.

I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.

I'd like to never be able to get pigeonholed, which is difficult to do.

Because of 'Terminator 2,' you get not pigeonholed but circled as one of those guys who can understand their way through a movie like that and hold it down.

I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

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.

There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.

The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.