Professional Labeling Quotes

Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.

When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.

I don't want to be pigeon-holed as a firefighter.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman. I will always be a female artist. People will put that in front whether you like it or not.

I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It is something I do. But I don't want that term to limit what I can do. I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam.

Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.

I am an actor. It's very unfair when people categorise and term me as a television actor or film actor.

I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

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'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

In the industry, once people see you in a certain mold, you start getting offered only those kind of roles.

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I was a cosmologist, but they started asking me about makeup, and the title 'astronomer' gets confused with astrologer. Now I say I make maps.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

People tend to typecast you in a certain way, depending on the kind of work you have been doing till then.

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

You can't tag me as a regional actress.

The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me. Yes, there is sexual content in my movies, and I have never been apologetic about doing bold scenes. But it's not fair to tag me this way because that can be very stifling.

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.