Quotes About Stereotypes

I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.

There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a grown-up doing a child's job.

Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.

Other Asian actors, especially American-born actors, sometimes shy away from immigrant roles.

There is this real divisive theory that if we allow more immigrants to come into this country, that they're going to take our jobs. It is simply not true. Every person I know who wants to work in a hotel and change sheets can do it.

The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

There are racial and gender implications to how we think about what leadership looks like in the country.

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.

I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.

The general impression about fat people is that they are romantic, funny and good dancers.

Animation has been ghettoized through the years by giving the impression we only do the same kind of stories.

When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. People frame it in a negative way, like, 'For Asian-Americans there's no one out there, so that must be really bad for you.' No, I benefited from it.

In the beginning of my career, I read an article about the reason that men always look five years younger than women is because they shave.

I think women believed for a long time that it was inappropriate for them to be interested in true crime. It made them judge themselves, or feel weird or ghoulish.

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

Why categorise crime as a gender issue? Why should a man or woman be more inclined to believe in certain basic values?

For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being a feminist,' so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you're not pro-woman!

You can't say you're inclusive when you only have one plus-size, hourglass white model.

The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.