Quotes About Stereotypes

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

I don't feel that Jewish people have a class.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Jews rule the world by proxy.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.

Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.

The Jews are always up for a laugh.

For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

I'm not saying Jews should only play Jews... I personally think actors should be allowed to act.

Aside from Joan Rivers and Roseanne, it's hard for me to think of any female comedian who's had kids and has a serious level of fame - like, the level where your mother has heard of them.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I've played a jock a lot, but pretty nuanced jocks.

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.

I tried to join three gangs, and every single one gave me a different excuse, but it was pretty much along the lines of, 'You're too goofy. You're too cute. You don't fit in.'

If I was a normal player at West Ham and wanted to join a Chinese club, nobody would have said anything. But since I was a leader at West Ham and thought about that offer, I was suddenly a bad man.

Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.

Whenever I go to any particular event, people are shocked that I'm a fighter. To be a fighter, I have to look a certain way, and to be an actress, I have to look a certain way. I have to change that; I've joined acting to do meaningful cinema and to show that there is much more than glamour that actresses can offer.