Quotes About Stereotypes

I've been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people's perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that's not what I am.

So many people always fear tattoos because they don't want to limit themselves from certain jobs. I clearly never let that stop me and just got covered head to toe.

If a man wants to objectify a woman, he will do it even if she's clad from head to toe.

My theory is that women simply can't get along with each other or work well together.

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.

Usually when you're Asian and you're on set, you're the only Asian there. Either you're the token Asian or you're the Asian sidekick.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.

You drive well for a woman." "That is so patronising. If I'd known you were going to say something like that I would have wrapped your precious Ferrari round a lamppost.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

Next to my green eyes, my blond hair is definitely my best feature. So, out of obligation to all the blondes before me (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, the many Barbies I have loved and tortured), I tend to spend hours getting it right. You know, so as not to let down the team.

I don't buy Le Figaro, either. Not because it's a right-leaning paper but because I can't forgive it for "Madame," its weekend magazine full of beauty and fashion, the very name of which, it seems to me, implies that lipsticks and liposuction are far more interesting to women than the main magazine devoted

Perhaps, however, it is the same with spinsters as with ghosts; and one has to be of their ranks in order to see them at all.

She will be like everyone, putting on the things she sees the constructions she expects to find there.

Frances tänkte inte be om ursäkt. Bättre att vara som jag, tänkte hon, än att vara gift. Hellre ungmö än trångsynt tjänstemannafru!

I possessed dark hair too coarse for fashion, pale skin too prone to freckle in the sun, and dark eyes too easily regarded as "sly," all coupled with a manner of speaking that was too loud and too frank. These fine qualities and others like them resulted in my being informed on a daily basis that I was both a nuisance and a disappointment.

That was the deal with the really good-looking boys: they automatically assumed you were pining and panting for them and wouldn't be satisfied until you'd had their babies, no matter how ugly their personalities might be.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?