Quotes About Stereotypes

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

Binaries, whether it's 'man' or 'woman,' or 'black' and 'white,' were created to separate us. So without binary, there is only 'us,' which makes us all equal.

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't blame the government because the government is supposed to be for them. So they blame black people.

I think it would be tough for a lot of the athletes that I play with to think that while that I'm showering, that I'm performing on the field, I'm bleeding, I'm fighting with a person that is a homosexual.

I think I am different from most blind people because my agility is not that of a blind person - I don't shuffle my feet when I walk. In fact, I have no, as I call them, 'blindisms.'

I don't have any blonde friends.

But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

I hate being a blonde.

I would never go blonde. I'd look crazy.

America thinks if you're fat, you're stupid. That's great. I want them to keep thinking that. Let them keep on thinking that because the truth is, the expectations are blown away even more when you realize what I'm saying and doing.

I'm so aware how often women's bodies are objectified on film.

In my head, I could never imagine that I could be an actress. I always thought actresses were meant to be perfect and that they would have perfect bodies with all the nakhras.

I get labelled lazy maybe because of my body language; I'm quite laid-back.

Do people think women from Bollywood aren't smart?

In Bollywood, everything is very one dimensional. This is a girl: she laughs a lot, is forever happy, chirpy, and that's all she is doing throughout the film. That's not how we are.

Somehow, in Bollywood I have always been offered comic roles. However, I am being looked at differently when it comes to movies being made in the West.

There are very few roles you actually get to perform for women. There aren't many woman-oriented films made in Bollywood.

I'm tired of telling people what Bollywood is.

I was too foreign-looking for Bollywood.

In India only sex and Bollywood sell. So if you are not using either of them, forget launching any product, sport or business in India.

People just never saw me beyond my looks. Being good looking sometimes works against you in Bollywood.

A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.