Quotes About Stereotypes

There is a big old joke around the 'Loose Women' team that I never shave my legs.

I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.

People just assume that you are not going to act after marriage, will stop doing romantic roles, and that every guy will stop his wife from acting. People who choose that are absolutely fine. I won't be shocked if I myself do it later. But that wasn't the case with us.

If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.

I have never been one to show off too much skin, and it's not just because I'm a larger woman.

When you have a baby in showbiz, people think you've died.

Nothing really prevented me from showing Catman as bi, but it's how I thought of him.

Why cannot a woman be shown working out of choice, the way men do? Can't a woman work because she enjoys it and is capable of doing it? Why should they be shown leaving home for employment as a sacrifice for the family?

When I hear a girl has had two babies by the age of 16, I think two things: Is she called Chardonnay, and what is she doing with her life?

I think we need a Muslim 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette.' I think that's what would be the great equalizer, and that would change everything.

I didn't aspire to be on 'The Bachelor.' I didn't watch the show. I thought it was for losers truly.

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy.

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

Give more acting roles to 48-year-old half-Lithuanians who just don't want to be pigeon-holed as bakery presenters.

Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

I hate barbecues in the U.K., they're always put together by people who don't cook.

Being Australian is a lot more than saying 'g'day mate' and 'throw a shrimp on the Barbie.'

We like that when girls look at us, they don't see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'