Tom Hiddleston Quotes

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

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

People will put me in whatever box they feel the most comfortable having me in, and nothing I can do will change that.

People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

People like to pigeonhole you.

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

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

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

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

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

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.

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

I do definitely get boxed into this #BlackGirlMagic social activist category. But it makes me think, "Well, maybe people are able to start thinking about that concept earlier and will hopefully be inspired to delve deeper into it and research it more." I think that's just how the media works. It's just very good at compartmentalizing human beings.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

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

The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such as myself are diminished by that label. I simply don't consider myself "new age." It's other people's small-mindedness that tries to connect me with someone who, let's say, thinks crystals are the answers to all of life's problems. I never did. There are those who suggest that anyone speaking from a base in California has less to say. That kind of bashing doesn't interest me.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.