Quotes About Stereotypes

There aren't many football players other than kickers who are Latin.

Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn't mean we're not human.

When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

I had a lot of ideas about conservatives and then I got to Fox and just, I was like, 'Oh, they're not all evil and stupid.'

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

My view is I should have been Miss Massillonian, and I wasn't. I think the reason I wasn't was because I was black. Frankly, I was told later I should have been. But they were afraid if they elected a black girl as Miss Massillonian, it would have been a scandal.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

There's always something fishy about the French.

That's only in America. We don't have French doors in France.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

In France, the gastronomy is one of the best in the world. But when you move to England, everybody tells you to be careful about fish & chips. And avoid fried English breakfasts. I now know why.

I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

I know when I was a kid I saw only one color of beauty, I saw only one kind in all the billboards and all magazines and the video clips. One kind and it was so frustrating.