Quotes About Stereotypes

I think accurately presenting a trans character means not presenting them as perfect - I think there's been a pressure to do this with trans characters. They can have no flaws because they must represent the entire trans community.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American could never be president until one was; a TV reality star couldn't become president until one was.

When I started doing press after college, I never got asked about my racial identity; I was asked more about being a girl in music.

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.

I find when I'm perceived as male in society, there is an enormous amount of pressure, but it comes with respect, so it's a balance.

I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

I never wanted to become an actress to avoid the pressures of looking good all the time.

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

I think more girls feel encouraged when women from their community do well. Especially in a place like Haryana, where people presume that women are looked down upon.

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind of presumption of autobiography in everything you produce. And I find that really maddening, and I resist that.

I'm not going to pretend that I'm something I'm not just because society says celebrities should be these perfect people that have to act a certain way.

I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl.

Let's make it clear: women are sexier than men. They are a prettier gender than their male counterparts. And then, if a woman is comfortable showing her mid-riff on-screen, what is the other's problem? Why does she face body shaming? Does a man face the same while going shirtless?

Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

It's true that blondes attract most of the attention. But it's the brunettes who look prettier as they get older.

My whole life, I've been called 'Just a pretty face,' or, 'You'll never amount to anything, you don't really have anything to offer, but your looks.' It's never defined who I am, I mean, I've heard it my whole life, it's nothing new.

I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

My dream is to play ordinary characters. I have no interest in playing a pretty girl or an NRI girl.

It's a crazy perception that a pretty girl cannot be cheated on.