Quotes About Stereotypes

When people hear a footballer speaking, they can think about it and maybe even reconsider the prejudices they have.

I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk band, you know?

We showed record companies that they shouldn't be scared just because it's an all-girl band. We could play just as well as the boys.

I don't know what record company would sign a 45-year-old former 80s pop star.

I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.

When I tried to get a record deal, only one label wanted me. The rest said 'oh, we've already got a girl with a guitar.' Can you imagine them ever saying that to a guy?

Because of technology, there's no longer the social shaming that goes on if you're a black kid walking into a record store to buy Nirvana.

When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.

My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy.

The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.

The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

I go to auditions even now and people say, 'Oh, she's too pretty,' or 'She doesn't look like a small-town girl or a girl in high school who would get bullied.' But that's the whole point of being an actress - you can look glamorous when you're on the red carpet, and then bring it all down and be raw onscreen.

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

Growing up, my favorite movies were 'Forrest Gump,' 'Shawshank Redemption,' 'Gladiator' - none of them really had Asian leading men.

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

I get a little freaked out when I'm around too many redheads. I only have about one or two red-haired friends, and when a bunch of us get together, I feel like there's going to be a fight that breaks out or something.

I'm not really a redhead, but I keep playing these redhead actresses. Which I don't mind; I think it's fun.

I'm pretty sure I could've ended up on 'Real Housewives of Orange County.' They need a fair-skinned redhead.

Whenever someone says something to me like 'Oh, another blonde at ESPN,' I would like to crunch the numbers. First, I think we have more brunettes than blondes. And second, there are only three normal hair colors. You're either a redhead, brunette, or blonde. It's really not that complicated.

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.