Boxed In Quotes

I never want to get stuck in the box.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

People had boxed me in as a 'pretty girl with followers that's rapping,' but I think my project and the work speaks for itself.

When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

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

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

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

I've spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. 'I'm going to do a play now.' 'Now I'll do a musical.' That was my instinct. So I don't feel boxed in. But 'African-American woman' is part of my identity. I don't want to relinquish that - especially as a mother, helping my daughter find her identity.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

I'm not getting into rooms for cis roles. I started my career auditioning for those roles, and then I went to play trans roles. And now, I feel boxed in.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

I don't allow the industry or anybody to put me in a box. I did that for a minute and I was like, 'I can't do this anymore.'

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

I don't like to be pigeon-holed.

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

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box.