Quotes About Stereotypes

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

My first professional gig was on a show called 'Nikita,' and I played Al Qaeda No. 2. At that time I had to take those roles because I just wanted to get my foot in the door.

There are a million reasons why I might not do well at a gig. But none of them are because I'm a woman.

Boys and girls are not the same.

After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.

I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has a white girlfriend or a white cousin or whatever.'

Far too often, I read a script where the girls are the girlfriend or the set dressing.

There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.

In both the 'Punchnama' movies, the characters and their relationships were only about boyfriends and girlfriends. But in 'SKTKS,' we had so much more to talk about.

Now that we're seeing that you can be a really masculine football player and a homosexual, you can be a really girly boy who likes to dress in women's clothes, I think that it's just been adding to the whole discussion about homosexuality and society.

I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It's being brave and courageous and true to yourself.

I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.

I'm in a sport where people don't look at us like women: they don't look at us like being girls or feminine. But I've been girly all my life, and so I couldn't separate... between the sport and being a woman.

I never went to school wanting to play cute characters or girly characters.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

In America, funny women are allowed to be glamorous and funny, but over here, you're not.

Just because I look a certain way, I was getting only those roles where I had to look hot and glamorous. And I kept rejecting them.

I wanted people to know I could play a glamorous role too.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

I have this demure, girl-next-door image and audiences will not accept me in glamour roles.

I don't like putting the female form behind glass or on a wall, further objectifying it as much as art does.

It's funny, one of the reasons why I never wear my glasses any more is that, when I was younger, a guy once said that he liked me until he found out that I wear glasses.

Where I'm from on the Gold Coast, we say that there are a lot of 'cashed-up Bogans,' you know, people with no class but a lot of money.

Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. - usually the '40s or '50s - 90 percent of the time, they're a straight white man.