Quotes About Stereotypes

The moment I say I'm going into scooters, they say, 'You're crazy.' Six months later, when BMW comes out with an electric scooter, it's fine. But when Anand does it, because he's some small guy in India, it's not fine.

People really cannot understand the concept of a black boy in a tracksuit in London being from Scotland.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.

When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

The overwhelming majority of my material has very little to do with my weight. It's certainly not the crux of my material.

Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack.

A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.

People seem to think that, by the time you hit 45 or 50, you might as well just pack it in and call it a day.

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

People think pageant girls are snotty, cutthroat, self-absorbed. Everybody that I meet in the industry is so kind, giving, and they are some of the most amazing women.

I was told I would never win a pageant because I was too little. But not only did I win, but then when I was told I would never be able to model because I was a pageant girl, I became a model and I was successful at it.

You look at the sports pages and you'd often be forgiven for thinking women didn't do sport.

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they're like; they'll paint a picture before they've met them.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

I just think it's really great to see athletes painted in a picture that you don't usually get to see us in.

I don't look like the way we've painted directors in our movies and everything since forever. I don't look like an old white guy in a baseball cap. So, yes, there are always moments when people are surprised that I'm the director.

I don't want to be painted any one color and that can happen to you in Hollywood if you make a hit in a particular role.

If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'