Quotes About Stereotypes

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

I would think Australians would understand 'guy talk' better than most. Definitely better than Brits.

I want to continue to broaden expectations of what an Asian can be.

Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed I would never be done on Broadway. But that was never the goal.

So many fantastic male characters are brooding, angry, and not nice; that doesn't happen as much with women.

You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.

America to me is where I grew up: in Brooklyn, around other black and Latino people who helped and loved each other. I just want to show people that America doesn't have to be this 'I'm in the NRA, blah blah blah' type of place.

When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home.

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

Not everyone likes seeing a strong, buff guy, but everyone likes women. We compete just as hard as men do, and we can do the acting just as well.

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

I don't have anything against long hair. I've known some crew-cut bums.

It's disconcerting that there's been this weird business model focused on teenaged boys, and it comes with a completely unexamined social cost. I hope there's an awareness happening to create an audience habituated to seeing women as they really are, rather than just a masticated shadow.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

I don't think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don't want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren't looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that's a shame.

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

I am with a very successful man, and the crazy thing is people think that it makes my career easier.

Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

I would not want to be Richard Simmons... right now or anytime. He seems like a nice guy, but if I had to dress like that? That would absolutely suck.

It sucks. When you're a woman in sports, people want you to show some skin.