Kelly Lynch Quotes

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

People label you the way they know you best.

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

Whatever I do, if people see me in a certain light, then they will always judge me in that light. Their impressions and perceptions will never change.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.