Quotes About Stereotypes

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.

I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.

The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.

If you are blonde with a little nose people always think you are gentle and not very bright.

The men I've played are all respectful and gentlemen towards me. I've never really had a problem. In the past a lot of people would go: 'We're playing a woman.' But now they're thinking: 'We're playing a good player.'

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

No astronauts look like George Clooney.

People look at me as an exotic person, which is great, because whatever Hollywood is, it seems very dogmatic to me, especially when you're a woman. But I always get excused because I'm German.

I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, 'Oh, she must have really wanted to get married, but she didn't.' I honestly think that attitude is a little bit sexist.

Like nearly every female, I thought I'd get married and that would be it for life.

I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.

I feel career women should avoid getting married.

Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role.

Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?

If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?

I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

Black people don't really see ghosts or aliens.