Quotes About Stereotypes

There are plenty of reasons for disliking people, but this tribal aversion to anyone with a posh voice is very boring.

The overwhelming majority of Afghans are not tribal, and they're not Pashtun.

One thing about Italians is you can't let them in your head. They're inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe; the Italians are cats. They're very helpful, but it's in their own rhythm, their own way, and it can drive you crazy.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

I think we have a perception of transvestites all being the same, as one block. It's not one mass or tribe. Everybody's got a different story.

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask me that question. So for me to identify a little tribe of gay writers, I don't know.

You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses.

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Say what you want about the deaf.

I do think we can be a little less PC when it comes to sports, though. Just once I want to hear an announcer go 'God, black people are fast. Holy cow! All of them. They're fast. Back to you Bob.'

That's one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans - maybe I'll get in trouble again - they don't want to help anybody.

I am not a fan of video games, I had to learn a lot about them. I would love to play video games, but I don't want to go around shooting people, and ripping off their heads, and it's just gross.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Being the hot girl... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be... I'd rather be interesting.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by it's covered; for inside those tattered pages, there's a lot to be discovered.

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.