Quotes About Stereotypes

I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's really not attainable, something they can't grasp, or they think of them as European or Russian and kind of their nose up in the air. So, it's cool for me to, like, sit with them and for them to really see themselves as me.

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.

Everybody else was quoting 2Pac, and I was running around with Green Day in my Walkman. Racially speaking, I wasn't cool or appropriate for any group.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

There are girls who find the giant beard 'gross' and 'creepy.' I know because they tell me.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.

I've experienced that, I think everyone who grows up a male experiences this idea of what it's supposed to mean to become a man from a boy.

I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young people make fun of. I turn a lot of those down.

Most coaches are mostly small guards because they think guards have more knowledge.

I guess I just do being a man different than some.

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing Howard Finkel does not get a lot of chicks!

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

It does annoy me when I walk into a room and there are six men over the age of 40 with, let's just say, a major gut problem, and they're saying 'hang on there Dervla, don't eat your chocolate cake at dessert.'

It takes a lot of guts to put on a face full of makeup, being a male in the world where a lot of people still think that cosmetics are only for women.

It takes guts to see me differently. Some casting directors come up with the excuse and they don't see me differently. I just get the feedback from some that you are good looking. I find it very bizarre, what's my look got to do with casting me in a certain character. Just cast me. I can change my look.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?