Quotes About Stereotypes

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

Rightly or wrongly, as a woman in politics, you're being judged for what you're wearing, and people are paying attention to that more than they do with men.

I don't think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color - there will be fewer roles.

Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

In the gay world, and in drag in particular, they love to put you on a pedestal and then two minutes later rip you down.

As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

Everyone wants to pencil you in as the kind of player that you're going to be after a few years in the big leagues. When you're still really young, they think that's what you're going to be forever.

I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.

It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn't like film. It's a bit like when people say they don't like books: you get that sharp intake of breath.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.

A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.

I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.