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Locked Quotes

Committed, focused, and unwilling to be boxed in.

This locked quotes page covers being fully absorbed in creative work, signing on to a role before the character was even designed, and resisting typecasting across different parts. Related themes continue in our Being quotes.

I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

Quotes by Adam Lamberg

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

I am always locked in my design studio.

Quotes by Valentino Garavani

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

Quotes by Trick Daddy

Always Quotes

I get the opportunity to play all different ethnicities and not get stereotyped or locked into one. It's been a tremendous advantage, I think.

Quotes by Tony Shalhoub

Me and my sisters were so awful. One nanny, we loved, but we hacked her email and sent her boyfriend lots of weird messages, and we once actually locked her in the toilet, too.

Quotes by Suki Waterhouse

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

Quotes by Samuel L. Jackson

Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.

Quotes by Sam Altman

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Quotes by Sallust

Being Quotes

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

Quotes by Russell Simmons

Israel and the United States have been locked in a mutually necessary and beneficial intelligence-sharing relationship for more than 60 years.

Quotes by Ronen Bergman

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Quotes by Robert Burns

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

Quotes by Rick James

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

Quotes by Richard Avedon

Door Quotes

The minimum I run each day is 2 1/2 miles. I'll get to the weekend, and sometimes I'll run 10 miles. I've gotten up to 16 miles on the weekend. Running keeps me locked in.

Quotes by Ray Allen

Working with Justin Bieber, I learned that he can literally do any genre - he's a chameleon. His voice is so flexible that he's not locked in to one genre, and it just shows the world that he can really...

Quotes by Poo Bear

The first time I got locked up, I was in Walmart stealing BB guns.

Quotes by PnB Rock

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.

Quotes by Phillip Noyce

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Quotes by Peter De Vries

Down Quotes

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

Quotes by Peggy Lipton

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does "locked" mean across these quotes?
It covers being deeply focused on work, committed to a role, or feeling boxed into a particular type or outcome.
Is there a quote about being absorbed in creative work?
Yes, one line describes being nearly always locked away inside a personal design studio while working.
Does the collection mention being cast in a role early on?
Yes, one quote recalls being locked into a voice role before the character had even been designed yet.
Is there a quote about resisting typecasting?
Yes, one line expresses appreciation for playing varied ethnicities rather than being locked into just one type of role. For more on identity and roles, see our Being quotes.
Does the collection touch on difficult family circumstances?
Yes, one quote reflects on how family instability might have led to a very different, locked-in outcome for a parent. Continue with our Always quotes.

One line reflects on how family instability can leave someone feeling permanently trapped in a difficult outcome. See also our Always and Door quotes.