Quotes About Stereotypes

She'd never call Smith males "womanizers." Although she would call them whores.

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.

A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

I was a tomboy and any time anyone says something about me being hot, it makes me giggle.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.

Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.