Quotes About Stereotypes

It's very easy to say that men think about things more simply, but it kind of is true. And that's not actually a bad thing. Approaching things in a more logical, practical fashion. This is a massive generalisation, but women tend to think about things more first, then act afterwards.

Much of the discussion around how people look at women focuses on culture, as if the media is entirely to blame. As if, without magazines and commenting hosts, we'd all suddenly dress in practical overalls and only judge a person on the quality of their charity work and poetry.

I think the word 'twink' is pejorative. There's something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else.

When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.

'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.

When people talk about someone you have preconceived judgments.

We have incredible record labels in Australia, but sometimes they have a preconceived idea of how to do things.

Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw that in your face.

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

When we go to the cinema, we bring all of our preconceptions of actors with us.

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

Comedy is a terrible way to meet women. It's certainly a way to start talking to them, but they always have preconceptions about you.

Of course, it's human nature for people, when they meet me to have some preconceptions about how I look, how I sing, how I behave. I can understand that. And I've realized you can't do anything about human nature except to ignore it.

When audience expect only humorous roles from me, my roles will become cliche and predictable.

We did a black 'Julius Caesar' in which the predominant accent was Caribbean. This offends many people, you know. I also had a Chinese Marc Anthony. I also managed - this caused a great shock - I also got some white guys in it as well!

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.