Quotes About Stereotypes

I am not an angry girl But it seems like I've got everyone fooled Every time I say something they find hard to hear They chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear

When I was 4 years old, they tried to test my IQ. They showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me, which one is different and does not belong? They taught me different is wrong.

It seems to me that the English are never serious--they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

Men can bury their past. An unmarried woman is her past. Whereas a wife has a social position. A spinster has none.

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen.

A lot of guys think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent she is. I think it's the opposite. I think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent the men become.

And then there were the lesbians.

Clichés so often befall vain people.

But perhaps do-gooders could wear lacy bras too.

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.

Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in a way that desensitized us to the savages we'd become.

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.

One of the things I want to achieve in the potentially short time I'm in Westminster is to stop people thinking we're all the same. Because while they believe that, the establishment stays in the same people's hands.

When you look at Westminster you think of it as pale, male and stale and I hate that so much.

Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.

I used to always employ South Africans and Aussies and Kiwis - I can't admit this, well I can now, but I couldn't admit it at the time - but I didn't want wet English lads who didn't want to work in the catering trade anyway.