Quotes About Stereotypes

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.

I've been constantly under male gaze. In our movies, women are constantly objectified.

In a lot of the Regency stuff we've seen in the past, we see a very composed woman. There's not much sexuality there. It's very much the male gaze.

Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

We're still stuck in male, female, feminism. I don't believe in, you know... I believe in gender equality.

I think our whole family just never limited ourselves to what anybody expected of us based on our gender. I never grew up that way.

It's almost comical how un-liberal liberal Hollywood is when it comes to fighting gender and racial bias.

Gender discrimination is not the only form of discrimination one has to deal with.

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

Why are we only talking about gender discrimination. We need to focus on the other kinds of discriminations in practice.

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

I think the biggest thing I can say to that is every female is different. Not that every man isn't, but speaking on behalf on my gender, I think women can watch sports exactly like men, and others watch it exactly the opposite way.

It is not easy to be a filmmaker but it has nothing to do with my gender.