Quotes About Stereotypes

It's not very exciting to go to work to just have your character's identity being defined by her relationship with her male counterparts.

I turned down a lot of work. I didn't want to ever feel defined by my ethnicity.

How sexist and rude to say that my job defines my character.

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of defining black culture. I started to become too aware of 'How does this look?' instead of 'Who are these characters?'

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

Hopefully, if we stop using the term plus-size we can just create a broader definition for what a model is.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I was somehow betraying myself. I felt very self-conscious on set doing that role, with a crew that was almost entirely white.

Growing up, the only Asian face I saw on air was Connie Chung or extras on M*A*S*H. That was it. You could either be Chinese delivery guy No. 4 or maybe one day read the news.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.

There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.

My parents aren't the demographic for a lot of things I do. If I did a stand-up show, and I saw 62-year-old Pakistanis in the crowd, I'd be like, 'I'm gonna bomb.'

We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!

To walk into a casting room full of people who look like you is a crazy thing. What is the thing that necessitates all of us having the exact same shade of skin and having the same hair? What about this deodorant commercial needs that?

You would think I'm mad or depressed all the time, but that's not the case at all.

The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

In India, when someone calls you sexy, they don't mean it as a compliment; it has derogatory connotations.

If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

I always wonder about the word 'intense.' 'Intense' is used to describe women. Guys are intense, but they don't get described that way.

I think the fact that all women get branded as the same, desperate for love, desperate for children, is just a really unmodern attitude.

Despite being a woman, somehow I have always found myself idolising male characters.