You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.
It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.
When 'Buffy' was on the air, I recorded every single episode on my TiVo. I'm pretty sure my DVR thought I was a fourteen year-old girl. Whatever. The show was incredible. It refused to be pigeonholed.
You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.
The lesson that I'm learning is that I've got to be careful of being pigeonholed because people can take a piece of tape and edit out the first half and only pull out one snippet that could start a firestorm.
When I was younger, you get pigeonholed in parts, which is understandable.
When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.
Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.
Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.
By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.
There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.
I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.
I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on the show and go to college because I was pretty convinced that after '70s' and after being on a show for eight years that I would be very much pigeonholed for something specific that I didn't want to be a part of anymore.
Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
I think - a lot of times in hip-hop, especially - artists get kind of pigeonholed into being 'the guy,' and it's kind of limiting in a way.
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'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.
After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you get pigeonholed, and it's both a blessing and a curse, but you live with it.
I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.
It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.
I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get. I think I'm a stronger comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress. I'm not really pigeonholed, but I'm known for drama. I do comedy so easily, and people relate to my humor. I'll be glad because I don't have to stay sexy and young forever. I don't care if I'm big, as long as I'm funny.
