Quotes About Stereotypes

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women.

There is so much discrimination towards women in Haryana.

We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women, but this is not the point.

I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I'm too pretty. How can I answer that?

The disgusting truth is that some of the less-educated families in the Caucasus hate and despise Russians simply because they are Russian, just as some less-educated Russian families feel the same way about people from the Caucasus.

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

I really dislike elves.

I really dislike the fact that Asian males are constantly emasculated, whether it's American TV or films. You see it all the time, and it's so weird that they don't see sexuality in Asian men.

The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.

I know people look at the Disney Channel as... a specific thing. But all the actors from 'Austin and Ally' - honestly, they're really good.

I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.

When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.

Together, we can put pressure on our employers to do better, to represent the rich diversity of the audience they serve, to stop painting women as sidekicks, as appendages or accessories to men.

There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.

We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same way.

Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.

For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.

As a reggaeton act, I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.