Quotes About Stereotypes

I think it's kind of silly, actually... I've been coached by men the majority of my career. It hasn't ever been an issue. They have never walked in on us. So I don't - I think it's a nonissue when you really reverse the conversation.

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then, looking at me, 'Well... good morning!'

Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.

A Klan member is not stamped from a standard cookie cutter. They come from all walks of life and various education levels and environmental situations which have led to their decision to join the Klan. The one common denominator that all share is lack of exposure to others who may not look like them or believe as they do.

Anyone who walks out on stage, whether he's eight or 80, they'll go, 'Oh, Alesha, he'd be good for you.' I'm the butt of the single jokes.

Sexism definitely exists - you see that in all walks of life.

People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.

Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

I find it sad that people think it's a political, gender-bending thing, because, really, I'm just singing about guys. There's a million guys singing about girls, and no one makes a big deal of it.

First, it was a big deal for girls to dress more like guys. Then it was a big deal for straight men to be metereosexuals and care about their appearance in the way that a gay man would. Now we have to take it a step further - men should be able to not wear men's clothes if they don't want to.

I don't know if I would play a woman in space in a bikini.

It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

Being bisexual doesn't mean I'm suddenly willy-nilly running around.

Black athletes are always under more scrutiny.