Quotes About Stereotypes

I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.

You don't naturally tend to identify with someone who's very different from you on the outside.

I'm black and white, so either, sometimes, you're not considered by the breakdown of the script: you're not 'black enough' for this role. Or you're not 'white enough' for this role. Or, like, looking up to people, who do I identify with? And not seeing Barbies that maybe look like me.

People don't necessarily identify me with doing adult things.

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

Even if you look at 'American Idol,' or 'X-Factor,' or 'The Voice' or anything, it was always difficult to see an Asian or an Asian-American make it to a certain point.

If you watch 'American Idol,' and you close your eyes, you don't know who's singing because they all sound exactly alike.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

There are ignorant individuals in every city.

All too often, girls are ignored because their challenges aren't thought to be as serious as those faced by boys.

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

Everyone has images in their mind of what to expect from different groups.

If I just wanted to put clean, perfect images of black people on the screen for an hour and a half, first of all, there are other people already doing that, and they're making a lot of money doing it.

There are certain images attached to an Indian woman - a mother, daughter, homemaker... there are certain parts of it that I really like, and I love having that identity also, but I feel women shouldn't be limited to that.

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.