Quotes About Stereotypes

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

What Boston basically said was, I didn't 'pass the eye test.' They were looking for somebody bigger, bulkier. They put me where they put guys my size - on the perimeter.

It doesn't bother me if I'm getting attention because I'm a girl.

People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot of things that have loops and sequencers, but I couldn't really be bothered.

I didn't have boundaries when I was growing up. I knew the difference between right and wrong, and all the things a kid needs to know, but nobody ever said to me, 'You can't do that, because that's not what girls are supposed to do. That's more of a boy thing.'

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box.

Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad.

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.

People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

After the series 'Roc' ended, every role offer I got was for the wise-cracking, ne'er-do-well brother or boyfriend, and I could have made a very good career doing those characters.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.

There are constant challenges about what's 'mainstream.' These kids in 'Dope' are as mainstream as the kids in 'Superbad' or 'The Breakfast Club.'

People only go by looks. If you have big breasts it doesn't mean that you are dumb.

Cinema is actually very backward. When we see gay characters or people of color, they're always there for that reason. I'm personally kind of sick of that. I love to see characters who just live and breathe and are comfortable in that space.

First off, it's a bit of a tired old chestnut that if a woman is pretty than she can't be bright. God what are we in, the 19th century?

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.