Quotes About Stereotypes

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

It is fair to say there is a lot of pressure placed on female reporters.

I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

If I can represent that body type of women that isn't represented so much in media, then I'd be happy to do that.

It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'

You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the 'Cosbys.'

I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life.

Curvy and plus-size models will just be models once it becomes more normalized and we get more representation and people are used to it and not shocked by it.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.

I've seen some female players, and they get up there and play an A chord and leave... and it's not a good representation. You can take it seriously and love it as much as a guy loves it, not just to get up there and pose.

If you take a step back, you realize that the TV landscape really has been... There have been some amazing shows in terms of representation, but not for Asian people.

First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.

Because I produce a comedy festival and because I write and all of that stuff, I've seen the relationship that actors can create, in a bad way sometimes, with the rest of the people they work with. I just want to be a good representation of, 'Actors are great! They're not what some people might think they are.'

It's people who look like me, just seeing representation of everyone. I didn't get that when I was young. I only saw one black girl that was on a Disney show, that was known for being the sassy, coocoo, that type of girl.

I think there's quite a narrow representation of gay people on TV and I think that we need to push that. And I think that we need to allow for a lot more stories to be told.

We have the right to be angry about our representation in the media. It's just not a reflection of how we live our daily lives.

We know already there is not enough representation of dark-skinned women in the media - that's just a fact.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

Not all representation is good representation. I would argue a lot of the marginalized representation in TV and media is off, because a lot of the gatekeepers are white straight cis people who mean well and they think meaning well is enough, and it's not.

We didn't grow up in any sort of meaningful representation in media apart from, you know, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Bruce Lee. But, of course, that was different still, because it always played to this narrative of the foreigner from the East.

I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show.