Quotes About Stereotypes

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

I refer to myself as an actor. I mean, why is there an 'actor' and an 'actress' when there is no 'doctor' and 'doctoress' or 'lawyer' and 'lawyeress?'

My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.

The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'

To be frank, I am confused. If an actress does a cameo dance sequence, it is often referred to as an item number, if an actor does the same, it is just a dance number!

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

The ambitious women usually work twice as hard to make up the handicap of being usually left out of the chummy male bonding that takes place over liquor.

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

There are so many shows that are 'white,' and we wanted to talk about how two really delusional, cliche white girls handle racial issues.

There are obviously issues in our industry. That starts at the top with studio execs who - not just men - don't believe a woman could handle a huge franchise or big action movie.

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.

White players always said to me: 'You can call me 'a white so and so,' I don't mind.' But that's because society has indoctrinated us over the past 400 years to think that that's like saying 'you handsome so and so.'

There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.

I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'

The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'