Quotes About Stereotypes

I've done golf and fitness shoots, but in those I'm still fairly covered up.

I feel like everyone in golf is just playing this part of this perfect golfer when in reality it's nothing like that.

You will have some people, who think you are are not a good actor because you are pretty. There will be people, who can see past your appearance and take you seriously.

I don't think kids of actors become good actors but exceptions are always there.

One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

It's always a good idea to go up for the male roles. You go up against a bunch of beefy guys, and the casting director then feels smart for taking you on, like he's the one who thought outside the box.

I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life.

I don't know if 'Crash' is a good movie or not because I didn't set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.

In 1981, when I passed out of Class 12, you could either become a doctor or an engineer. If you did not take up Science in Class 12, you were not considered a good student. The Arts were a no-no.

Standing out for being short is not actually a good thing as a model and it hasn't been a help.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.

The term "tomboy," one nineteenth-century author recalled, looking back at the pre–Civil War era, "was applied to all little girls who showed the least tendency toward thinking and acting for themselves.

The theory that women should only be asked to do work that was safe and relatively mundane was ignored whenever something risky or difficult actually needed to be done.

When I was young if a girl married poor, she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet and a doll. —Susan B. Anthony A

Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons.

The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.

Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.

You can always tell a man's nationality by introducing him to a beautiful girl. An Englishman shakes her hand; a Frenchman kisses her hand; an American asks her for a date; and a Russian wires Moscow for instructions.

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.