Top 30 Pigeonhole Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Pigeonhole Quotes from famous people such as Ben Hopkins, Karen Black, Dominic Cooper, Patti Smith, Jesse Palmer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I’m interested in knowing. They’re so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.
Ben Hopkins
I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
Karen Black
We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
Dominic Cooper
I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
Patti Smith
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.’
Jesse Palmer
I look to a lot of artists who don’t focus on one medium, who you can’t pigeonhole.
Mickalene Thomas
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.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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.
Chris Claremont
I’ve never liked the publishing world’s determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.
Joe R. Lansdale
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.
F. Gary Gray
People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.
Edward Zwick
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.
Lukas Foss
Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I’ve written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I’ve done it all.
Melissa Rosenberg
I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I’m looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I’m looking at other mediums, too. I’m a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
Samira Wiley
I’m just an entertainer, man. I don’t like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
Ice Cube
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.
Jonathan Levine
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
Adam West
I used to be offended when people would compare me to Erykah Badu. Because I’m black, thick, and have large lips? There’s nothing similar about us whatsoever, and I felt very disrespected by the fact that people needed to pigeonhole me. I wasn’t even raised on Erykah Badu!
SZA
You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.
Kevin Hart
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.
Dolores O’Riordan
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
Chester Bennington
I’ve done history; I’ve done biopics, I’ve done a little bit of comedy. I just want to keep going and show people that you can’t typecast me, you can’t pigeonhole me.
Jason Mitchell
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.
Blase J. Cupich
God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.
Greg Boyle
People like to pigeonhole. People like to label – not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me ‘literary horror,’ I guess that’s fine. What I’m trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.
Benjamin Percy
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.
M.I.A.
I don’t want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.
Emilie de Ravin
When it comes to the liberal agenda, it’s more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.
Steven Crowder
Producers have a tendency to put you in a pigeonhole: ‘What does this white, middle-aged preppy know about 1960s Kingston?’
Whit Stillman
Everyone always says, ‘We don’t want to be pigeonholed.’ But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.
Brian Fallon