Quotes About Stereotypes

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?

There have been instances when people have told me that I look too intelligent to be an actress.

I think the female actors are far more intelligent than the male actors.

I believed what people said, that I don't deserve to be a leader because of the way I look. That I don't deserve to be popular, that I don't deserve to be loved. I'm not intelligent.

People in the industry thought it was laughable that I should be going up for things that didn't clearly state what race the part was intended for.

It's always been like this since the beginning of time. You interact with one female or somebody that people will think you'll cute with and everybody either assumes that you're dating or they want you date. It's just how it all works.

Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

Some of the oddest foods I've encountered are 'American' foods represented internationally.

I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate.

The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials.

Also they have this nervous feeling that anyone with tits like that must be vulgar. Or insensitive. There I sit, reading my Proust and minding my p's and q's and keeping up with current oddities—no slouch more or less—and I see them shrink from my gaze as though I were a tramp.

Everyone knew the way to dance was like black people did and they all danced that way.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can usually see better than he can think! (unknown)

Martha had never trusted skinny cooks.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

Anti-Semitism was nothing new to him. He'd grown up a good ole boy in Gainesville, where there was little direct contact with Jews but still a lot of prejudice. The locals regarded decadent Miami as a pinko watering hole for kikes, spics, and niggers.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Patachula pone en duda que pueda ser lista una mujer que se haya casado conmigo.