Quotes About Stereotypes

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

Sometimes actresses are just insane.

I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane.

I'm the kid in school who always, you know, got the straight A's. I got to be that, you know, alpha aggressive work-ethic guy. And to have people assume that I was just this blithe, in-your-face guy writing crap, tossing it off, garnering insane amounts of money, and laughing all the way to the bank - frankly, I guess I got sensitive.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

It's about time we stopped being so insecure and defensive and admitted that the Germans are better at economics than us. We like laughing and they like maths.

What's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist, when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

I always found growing up that, even inspiring female characters or complex female characters in TV and film... I often found that their complexity was actually just another facet of their sexuality.

Maybe I don't have an accurate view of myself. For instance, I keep getting cast as 'The Beautiful Girl,' but I don't happen to think I'm beautiful.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.

I've heard other actors saying they don't want to play a character with an accent at all. To me, that's kind of an insult to somebody like me who did have an accent.

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

I don't like this word, 'Feminazis,' or 'libtard.' I don't like these words, because I feel there's no true understanding of the word 'feminism,' there's no understanding of the word 'liberal,' and I find these very derogatory and insulting.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation.

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.

People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.