Quotes About Stereotypes

No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.

When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

People say the English players don't come to Italy because they look down on Serie A, but that's just not true.

Ramdev Baba had once said mean things about item girls and heroines. So I want to marry him to prove that even item girls are like any other woman, who can be a very good daughter, sister, wife and mother.

Item numbers are not for me.

They offer me item numbers, Bhabhi roles and all that. When they offer me the role of the main lead, that particular film ends up not being made. I don't know what they want.

I am tired of saying no to item songs. I don't want to be known as an item number girl.

I don't judge people who are in item numbers.

People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'

I truly believe that if I would make a bad film, I might be walking into director's jail and never out. And that I think is probably a little more true because I'm a woman.

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.

I want to go to Japan. I feel like they love blonde girls.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.

I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.

One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'

After 'Gangs,' people thought that I couldn't speak a sentence in English or that I don't wear jeans or, you know, I am a city girl.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.

Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.

I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.

I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.