Quotes About Stereotypes

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

I would never have picked up cycling had it not been for my disability because it just wasn't something I saw. You see someone riding past in their Lycra and it's normally white, middle-class males and I never would have seen myself in that position, being an elite cyclist.

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

There are so many factors involved in picking a model for a shoot or show. If they want a brunette, then they're not going to go with me.

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

It's actually sexist to accuse men as a whole of something, you know? It's just - I don't know. A guy can't even open a door for a lady without being called a pig.

A lot of people get pigeonholed because it makes it easier to understand them - or assume you understand them. I think the way you break away from that is by constantly doing different jobs.

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.

One thing I quickly discovered as a female pilot - ditch the heels!

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

I played myself in an Aziz Ansari comedy, and that was funny to see how they saw me... flowing scarves and a flourish of pink! Eek!

When I walk around on the street and someone comes up to me, I have just as many full-grown men with large beards in Slipknot shirts saying he likes my band as much as I do girls with bright pink hair.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'