Quotes About Stereotypes

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

By being politically correct, you're closing your mind to a different point of view. Which sounds a lot like prejudice. Which is definitely not politically correct. See what I just did there?

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora.

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

Prejudices save time.

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.

I'm trying to break a lot of prejudices with my every film.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

You're seen a certain way in the acting world. To them, you're still a football player and not taken as seriously. They think you're just doing it to be a celebrity, to keep your name out there. They don't think you'll prepare.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

When I first came to comics, it was, like, dudes. The feeling, the air, the presence is overwhelmingly male.

There's an ongoing discussion around equality, and age is one thing that has a very different presence around women than it does around men.

Anti-Semitism was a constant presence in the campaign after it became known I was Jewish.

I think Australia focuses on people that had a big start at home, like 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours' graduates, and the truth is those shows are pretty white for the most part. The diverse actors go straight to the States because that is where more diverse stories and opportunities are being presented.

I believe that everyone who is human is androgynous, but I don't think there are a lot of people that are presented as truly androgynous.

Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they're just plain emasculated.