What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves to go, "All right. There's the good guy, there's the bad guy, there's the girl. Okay, I get it now. " But life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. So any time the hero does something I'm not crazy about, or the bad guy does something I can relate to, I'll find it more interesting.
Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!
People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.
Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.
It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction. . . Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.
People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
People like to pigeonhole you.
People don't seem to be able to pigeonhole me yet, which is great.
I don't want people to pigeonhole me.
You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.
Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.
